Which version of R is running in my computer?

Question

There are two R directories on my computer:
one is /home/R-2.15.2,the other is /home/R-2.15.1,
when I input R , I can start R, now I want to know which R is running: 2.15.1 or 2.15.2?

Answer 1

Run R --version there's info about version on the first line.

Edit: If you ask this question then I bet that R is not running from any of these directories. Check $PATH env variable to get information where binaries are looked for and in which order.

Edit 2: Use type shell command to find where binary for given command is stored, -a for all paths, -f for the hashed one (basically: most recently used).

Answer 2

Try sessionInfo()

Next to the R version it also returns the versions of the loaded packages and more.

http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/utils/html/sessionInfo.html

Answer 3

The builtin version will show this.

> version
               _                            
platform       x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0     
...
version.string R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26)

version is a named list with 14 items, really you just want to see:

> version[['version.string']]
               _                            
[1] "R version 2.15.2 (2012-10-26)"

and in fact if you only want the version-string:

> strsplit(version[['version.string']], ' ')[[1]][3]
[1] "2.15.2"

Type builtins() to see all the builtins.

POSTSCRIPT: turns out version and R.version (mentioned by nathaninmac) are aliases for the same thing.

Answer 4

You can type 'which R' to which R binary gets used

or type R and see something like below, that should tell you which version.

" R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22) -- "Roasted Marshmallows" Copyright (C) 2012 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing .. .. "

Answer 5

In addition to @Piotr Jaszkowski, R.Version() should do the work as well