One the most basic and popular uses for details is to paste the sessioninfo at the bottom of a GitHub issue.
Pro tip: When using details in knitr/rmarkdown documents there is no need to set the knitr chunk options to results=‘asis’, there are already predefined print methods for these environments.
Current session info
─ Session info ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
setting value
version R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)
os macOS Mojave 10.14.5
system x86_64, darwin15.6.0
ui X11
language (EN)
collate C
ctype en_US.UTF-8
tz America/New_York
date 2020-01-12
─ Packages ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
package * version date lib source
assertthat 0.2.1 2019-03-21 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
backports 1.1.5 2019-10-02 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
cli 2.0.0 2019-12-09 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
clipr 0.7.0 2019-07-23 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
crayon 1.3.4 2017-09-16 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
desc 1.2.0 2019-12-01 [3] Github (r-lib/desc@61205f6)
details * 0.2.1 2020-01-12 [1] local
digest 0.6.23 2019-11-23 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
evaluate 0.14 2019-05-28 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
fansi 0.4.0 2018-10-05 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
glue 1.3.1.9000 2020-01-07 [3] Github (tidyverse/glue@b9ffe6c)
htmltools 0.4.0 2019-10-04 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
httr 1.4.1 2019-08-05 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
knitr 1.25 2019-09-18 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
magrittr 1.5 2014-11-22 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
pillar 1.4.3 2019-12-20 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
pkgconfig 2.0.3 2019-09-22 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
png 0.1-7 2013-12-03 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
R6 2.4.1 2019-11-12 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
Rcpp 1.0.3 2019-11-08 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.1)
rlang 0.4.2 2019-11-23 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
rmarkdown 2.0 2019-12-12 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
rprojroot 1.3-2 2018-01-03 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
sessioninfo 1.1.1 2018-11-05 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
stringi 1.4.3 2019-03-12 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
stringr 1.4.0 2019-02-10 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
tibble 2.1.3 2019-06-06 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
utf8 1.1.4 2018-05-24 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
vctrs 0.2.1 2019-12-17 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
withr 2.1.2 2018-03-15 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
xfun 0.10 2019-10-01 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
xml2 1.2.2 2019-08-09 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
yaml 2.2.0 2018-07-25 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
zeallot 0.1.0 2018-01-28 [3] CRAN (R 3.6.0)
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[2] /private/var/folders/kx/t4h_mm1910sb7vhm_gnfnx2c0000gn/T/RtmpZqC1Gb/temp_libpath96cf30ec5d3
[3] /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/library