session_diff: Compare session information from two sources

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Compare session information from two sources

Description

Compare session information from two sources

Usage

session_diff(
  old = "local",
  new = "clipboard",
  packages = c("diff", "merge"),
  ...
)

Arguments

old, new	A session_info object (the return value of session_info()), or a pointer to session_info() output. See details below.
packages	How to compare the package info for old and new: "diff": line diffs, in the style of diff -u "merge": merge the information into one data frame, with one row per package. Only package version and source are compared.
...	Passed to any new session_info() calls.

Details

Various way to specify old and new:

• A session_info object.

• "local" runs session_info() in the current session, and uses its output.

• "clipboard" takes the session info from the system clipboard. If the clipboard contains a URL, it is followed to download the session info.

• The URL where you inspect the results for a GitHub Actions job. Typically has this form:

  https://github.com/OWNER/REPO/actions/runs/RUN_ID/jobs/HTML_ID
  

  Internally, this URL is parsed so we can look up the job id, get the log file, and extract session info.

• Any other URL starting with ⁠http://⁠ or ⁠https://⁠. session_diff() searches the HTML (or text) page for the session info header to find the session info.

Examples

session_diff()

sessioninfo documentation built on April 3, 2025, 8:48 p.m.