The goal of procmaps is to help determine which library or other region is mapped to a specific address of a process. It is the equivalent of /proc/self/maps as a data frame, and is designed to work on all major platforms.

You can install the released version of procmaps from CRAN with:

install.packages("procmaps")

This is what /proc/self/maps looks like (on Linux) when this document is rendered:

cat /proc/self/maps
#> 56390592e000-563905936000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 2883652                    /bin/cat
#> 563905b35000-563905b36000 r--p 00007000 fd:01 2883652                    /bin/cat
#> 563905b36000-563905b37000 rw-p 00008000 fd:01 2883652                    /bin/cat
#> 563906bb9000-563906bda000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                          [heap]
#> 7fb42c468000-7fb42c8c7000 r--p 00000000 fd:01 29370411                   /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
#> 7fb42c8c7000-7fb42caae000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 15731435                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.27.so
#> 7fb42caae000-7fb42ccae000 ---p 001e7000 fd:01 15731435                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.27.so
#> 7fb42ccae000-7fb42ccb2000 r--p 001e7000 fd:01 15731435                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.27.so
#> 7fb42ccb2000-7fb42ccb4000 rw-p 001eb000 fd:01 15731435                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.27.so
#> 7fb42ccb4000-7fb42ccb8000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
#> 7fb42ccb8000-7fb42ccdf000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 15731135                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.27.so
#> 7fb42ceb2000-7fb42ceb4000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
#> 7fb42cebd000-7fb42cedf000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
#> 7fb42cedf000-7fb42cee0000 r--p 00027000 fd:01 15731135                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.27.so
#> 7fb42cee0000-7fb42cee1000 rw-p 00028000 fd:01 15731135                   /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.27.so
#> 7fb42cee1000-7fb42cee2000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
#> 7ffed6a9a000-7ffed6abc000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                          [stack]
#> 7ffed6b08000-7ffed6b0b000 r--p 00000000 00:00 0                          [vvar]
#> 7ffed6b0b000-7ffed6b0d000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                          [vdso]
#> ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                  [vsyscall]

Other operating systems make this information available in other form. This package provides the equivalent as a data frame, regardless of operating system:

library(procmaps)
procmap_get()
#> Converting to tibble, mute this message with `as_tibble = TRUE`.
#> # A tibble: 378 x 6
#>    from         to          perms offset  inode  pathname                       
#>    <chr>        <chr>       <chr> <chr>   <chr>  <chr>                          
#>  1 000055cc2db… 000055cc2d… r-xp  000000… 29393… /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R          
#>  2 000055cc2dd… 000055cc2d… r--p  000000… 29393… /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R          
#>  3 000055cc2dd… 000055cc2d… rw-p  000010… 29393… /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R          
#>  4 000055cc2e4… 000055cc33… rw-p  000000… 0      [heap]                         
#>  5 00007f9bac9… 00007f9bac… r-xp  000000… 28991… /home/kirill/git/R/r-prof/proc…
#>  6 00007f9bac9… 00007f9bac… ---p  000040… 28991… /home/kirill/git/R/r-prof/proc…
#>  7 00007f9bacb… 00007f9bac… r--p  000030… 28991… /home/kirill/git/R/r-prof/proc…
#>  8 00007f9bacb… 00007f9bac… rw-p  000040… 28991… /home/kirill/git/R/r-prof/proc…
#>  9 00007f9bacb… 00007f9bac… r-xp  000000… 28722… /home/kirill/R-dev/glue/libs/g…
#> 10 00007f9bacb… 00007f9bac… ---p  000020… 28722… /home/kirill/R-dev/glue/libs/g…
#> # … with 368 more rows

Please note that the procmaps project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.