Using sessionInfo() for better reproducibility
- 1 minI’ve recently had some trouble with re-running some old code. It turns out that the error was that the package ggplot2 had recently released a new version and that I had upgraded it without realising that it would alter how my old code functioned.
As a result, I will now include sessionInfo() at the end of every piece of work I do, so that when I compile my .Rmd file, I will know in the future what the versions of the packages I used were. This will hopefully improve the reproducibility of my code.
sessionInfo()## R version 3.2.4 (2016-03-10)
## Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
## Running under: Windows >= 8 x64 (build 9200)
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## locale:
## [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252
## [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252
## [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252
## [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
## [5] LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252
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## attached base packages:
## [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
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## other attached packages:
## [1] knitr_1.11
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## loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
## [1] magrittr_1.5 formatR_1.2.1 tools_3.2.4 stringi_1.0-1 stringr_1.0.0
## [6] evaluate_0.8
Danny Wong
Anaesthetist & Health Services Researcher