WISH: rstudio --version

[HenrikBengtsson]

Please consider adding support for querying the RStudio version from the command line, .e.g.

$ rstudio --version
1.1.453

$ 

Migrated from https://community.rstudio.com/t/wish-rstudio-version/18322

[philmikejones]

If you're on Ubuntu/Debian you can use:

dpkg -s rstudio | grep "Version"

[jmcphers]

Can you tell us a little more about why you want to do this? (realize it's a common convention!)

[HenrikBengtsson]

Convenience - not having to open a GUI click through menus to find it (kudos for making the About dialog cut'n'pastable). It will help sysadms orchestrating 100-1000's of software tools.

It'll also allow for programtically querying the version, e.g. when producing table-of-software tools installed.

EDIT 2018-12-22: Mention automation.

[kevinushey]

It's worth saying that RStudio will install a VERSION file that can be queried as well:

$ cat /usr/lib/rstudio/VERSION 
1.3.568