Platforms with MSB (Most Significant Byte)
Duncan Murdoch
dmurdoch@pair.com
Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:16:00 -0400
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 16:15:31 +0200 (CEST), you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I asked some days ago how to guess the o.s. the machine is running. I
>found that it is stored in a variable called R_PLATFORM. Now I need a
>full list of all the values this variable can have because I need to set
>an option depending on the endianness of the platform in which we are
>compiling the package.
>
> Anyone can help me? Thanks,
I don't think a complete list exists. I'd suggest running R to find
out: Platform()$endian gives the result you need, so something like
this works in Windows:
echo cat(Platform()$endian) | Rterm --slave
Duncan Murdoch
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