diff --git a/.github/workflows/r-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/r-ci.yml
index 93bff7b388..421f64de84 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/r-ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/r-ci.yml
@@ -51,17 +51,35 @@ jobs:
           wget https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB-R/archive/refs/tags/0.21.3.tar.gz
           Rscript -e 'remotes::install_deps("0.21.3.tar.gz")'
           R CMD INSTALL 0.21.3.tar.gz    # as 0.21.3 is needed by SOMA 1.5.1
+          Rscript -e 'print("VERSION CHECK")'
+          Rscript -e 'print(packageVersion("tiledb"))'
+          Rscript -e 'print(tiledb::tiledb_version())'
 
       - name: Install r-universe build of SeuratObject (macOS)
         if: ${{ matrix.os == 'macOS-latest' }}
-        run: cd apis/r && Rscript -e "install.packages('SeuratObject', repos = c('https://mojaveazure.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))"
+        run: |
+          cd apis/r
+          Rscript -e "install.packages('SeuratObject', repos = c('https://mojaveazure.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))"
+          Rscript -e 'print("VERSION CHECK")'
+          Rscript -e 'print(packageVersion("tiledb"))'
+          Rscript -e 'print(tiledb::tiledb_version())'
 
       - name: Install r-universe build of SeuratObject (linux)
         if: ${{ matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest' }}
-        run: cd apis/r && Rscript -e "options(bspm.version.check=TRUE); install.packages('SeuratObject', repos = c('https://mojaveazure.r-universe.dev/bin/linux/jammy/4.3/', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))"
+        run: |
+          cd apis/r
+          Rscript -e "options(bspm.version.check=TRUE); install.packages('SeuratObject', repos = c('https://mojaveazure.r-universe.dev/bin/linux/jammy/4.3/', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))"
+          Rscript -e 'print("VERSION CHECK")'
+          Rscript -e 'print(packageVersion("tiledb"))'
+          Rscript -e 'print(tiledb::tiledb_version())'
 
       - name: Dependencies
-        run: cd apis/r && tools/r-ci.sh install_all
+        run: |
+          cd apis/r
+          tools/r-ci.sh install_all
+          Rscript -e 'print("VERSION CHECK")'
+          Rscript -e 'print(packageVersion("tiledb"))'
+          Rscript -e 'print(tiledb::tiledb_version())'
 
       - name: CMake
         uses: lukka/get-cmake@latest
@@ -77,11 +95,23 @@ jobs:
       #  run: sudo ldconfig
       #
       - name: Update Packages
-        run: Rscript -e 'update.packages(ask=FALSE)'
+        run: |
+          Rscript -e 'update.packages(ask=FALSE)'
+          Rscript -e 'print("VERSION CHECK")'
+          Rscript -e 'print(packageVersion("tiledb"))'
+          Rscript -e 'print(tiledb::tiledb_version())'
 
       - name: Test
         if: ${{ matrix.covr == 'no' }}
-        run: cd apis/r && tools/r-ci.sh run_tests
+        run: |
+          cd apis/r
+          Rscript -e 'print("VERSION CHECK")'
+          Rscript -e 'print(packageVersion("tiledb"))'
+          Rscript -e 'print(tiledb::tiledb_version())'
+          tools/r-ci.sh run_tests
+          Rscript -e 'print("VERSION CHECK")'
+          Rscript -e 'print(packageVersion("tiledb"))'
+          Rscript -e 'print(tiledb::tiledb_version())'
 
       - name: View Install Output
         run: cat $HOME/work/TileDB-SOMA/TileDB-SOMA/apis/r/tiledbsoma.Rcheck/00install.out
diff --git a/apis/system/tests/test_version_match.py b/apis/system/tests/test_version_match.py
index 36a36faac8..e00d5a4157 100644
--- a/apis/system/tests/test_version_match.py
+++ b/apis/system/tests/test_version_match.py
@@ -1,38 +1,22 @@
-# Issue:
+ import tiledb
 
-# * tiledbsoma 1.5.1 with core 2.17 exists in GitHub, PyPI, r-universe, and Conda
-# * tiledbsoma 1.6.0 with core 2.18 exists in GitHub, PyPI, r-universe, and Conda
-# * We have a bugfix for a Python issue on release-1.6 and release-1.5
-#   * main: https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA/pull/1963
-#   * release-1.6: https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA/pull/1964 and this can go in a (not yet tagged) 1.6.1
-#   * release-1.5: https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA/pull/1968 and this can go in a (not yet tagged) 1.6.18
-# * Problem:
-#   * tiledb-r 0.22 (with core 2.18) now does exist
-#   * The release-1.5 branch of TileDB-SOMA needs core 2.17
-#   * The R DESCRIPTION language does not (syntactically) let us pin tiledb-r to == 0.21, only to >= 0.21
-#   * CI fails with
-#     * as.integer(version["minor"]) == 17 is not TRUE
-# * Since 1.5.2 is a Python-only bugfix, we silence the CI alert here.
+ from .common import BasePythonRInterop
 
-# import tiledb
-#
-# from .common import BasePythonRInterop
-#
-#
-# class TestVersionMatch(BasePythonRInterop):
-#    def test_version_match(self):
-#        """
-#        Verifies that the TileDB version of R and Python match. If they don't, the roundtrip
-#        testing will likely fail.
-#        """
-#        version = tiledb.libtiledb.version()
-#        major, minor = version[0], version[1]
-#
-#        self.execute_R_script(
-#            f"""
-#        library("tiledb")
-#        version = tiledb_version()
-#        stopifnot(as.integer(version["major"]) == {major})
-#        stopifnot(as.integer(version["minor"]) == {minor})
-#        """
-#        )
+
+ class TestVersionMatch(BasePythonRInterop):
+    def test_version_match(self):
+        """
+        Verifies that the TileDB version of R and Python match. If they don't, the roundtrip
+        testing will likely fail.
+        """
+        version = tiledb.libtiledb.version()
+        major, minor = version[0], version[1]
+
+        self.execute_R_script(
+            f"""
+        library("tiledb")
+        version = tiledb_version()
+        stopifnot(as.integer(version["major"]) == {major})
+        stopifnot(as.integer(version["minor"]) == {minor})
+        """
+        )