Determine name of R package my code is in?

Question

I'm working on an R package and (in the package's code) need to determine the version number when a certain function is called.

packageVersion("mypackage") works, but I'd rather not hard code the name of the package. How can I ask "what's the name of the package I'm in"? (Or directly get the version number of the package I'm in.)

Answer 1

This mailing list thread describes packageName().

(As Martin pointed out in comments.)

Answer 2

I have not handled working with packages. But I am assuming you can use something like

packageVersion(getPackageName())

While you can supply parameters to getPackageName to search for the package name you are looking for, I think just supplying it without any parameters will get the current environment, (and in your case) the current package.

Source: The R Reference Index, available at https://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html