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Andryas Waurzenczak
Andryas Waurzenczak

Reputation: 469

R: Is there a way to get the sessionInfo/packages of other session R?

Imagine that I open two session R.

In the first (R1) I loaded the package dplyr.

Now, my questions is, is there way to get the sessionInfo/packages loaded in R1 through R2??

UPDATE:

I am writing a R help system in Atom editor. Atom editor currently not support the function help of R. So i am creating one. And to find the help of the function you need to search into packages where this function is, the best way is know what packages are loaded in your current session R. And that is my difficult. One way to solution this is to forgett the loaded packages and search in all installed packages, but it is to slowly if you have a lot of packages installed.

So in my script R i have a line that has this code:
pkg <- .packages() # all packages loaded in this currently session

But when I run this script R1 in other script R2, it not get the packages loaded in the currently script R2, but the script R1.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 616

Answers (1)

GcL
GcL

Reputation: 616

Use the Services API to interact with Hydrogen

The following details interacting with other packages in atom: http://flight-manual.atom.io/behind-atom/sections/interacting-with-other-packages-via-services/

Hydrogen is an interface to a jupyter kernel. It's is maintaining the session with the kernel, and it has a plugin API currently which you could use to get the connection information to the backing kernel. https://nteract.gitbooks.io/hydrogen/docs/PluginAPI.html. Using that you could send your call to packages().

There is also r-exec, but I believe that's Mac only. In that case, you could get the

Upvotes: 1

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