diff --git a/data-raw/session.R b/data-raw/session.R
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+## code to prepare `session` dataset goes here
+
+session <- devtools::session_info()
+
+platform <- c(session$platform,
+      "FreesearchR"=paste(gsub("Version: ","",readLines(here::here('DESCRIPTION'))[3]),format(Sys.time(),format = '%y%m%d'),sep='.'))
+
+platform <- data.frame(option=names(platform),value=Reduce(c,platform))
+
+libs <- as.data.frame(session$packages)[names(session$packages) %in% c("package","loadedversion","date","source")]
+
+rownames(libs) <- NULL
+
+session_data <- list(
+  platform=platform,
+  libs=libs
+)
+
+usethis::use_data(session_data,internal = TRUE, overwrite = TRUE)