R: Export the Rcpp (API) Package Version

getRcppVersion {Rcpp} | R Documentation

## Export the Rcpp (API) Package Version

### Description

Helper function to report the package version of the R installation.

### Usage

    getRcppVersion(devel = FALSE)

### Arguments

`devel` | An logical value indicating if the development or release version number should be returned, default is release.

### Details

While `packageVersion(Rcpp)` exports the version registers in DESCRIPTION, this version does get incremented more easily during development and can therefore be higher than the released version. The actual `#define` long used at the C++ level corresponds more to an ‘API Version’ which is now provided by this function, and use for example in the package skeleton generator.

### Value

A `package_version` object with either the release or development version.

### Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

### See Also

`packageVersion`, `Rcpp.package.skeleton`

### Examples

    getRcppVersion()

[Package Rcpp version 1.0.8 Index]