Platforms with MSB (Most Significant Byte)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> 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

Platform() is to be deprecated in the next release: please use
.Platform$endian instead.

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