[Rd] How to test if R is running on a Mac

[Oleg Sklyar]

I had the same problem. The following line using either 'apple' or
'darwin' does the job for me (tested on many different Macs):

length(grep("apple", tolower(Sys.getenv("R_PLATFORM")))) != 0



On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 15:41 +0200, Gorjanc Gregor wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Is there any way to test if R is running on a Mac? I usually use
> value of .Platform$OS.type for windows or unix, but Mac falls in the
> latter group.
> 
> Thanks, Gregor
> 
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