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.
sessioninfo::session_info()|>
details::details(
summary = 'Current session info',
open = TRUE
)
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version R version 4.4.1 (2024-06-14)
os Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
system x86_64, linux-gnu
ui X11
language en
collate en_US.UTF-8
ctype en_US.UTF-8
tz Etc/UTC
date 2025-10-14
pandoc 3.2 @ /usr/lib/rstudio-server/bin/quarto/bin/tools/x86_64/ (via rmarkdown)
quarto 1.5.57 @ /usr/local/bin/quarto
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