[Rd] Return options used to configure R

Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org
Fri Jan 22 13:07:14 CET 2016


On 22 January 2016 at 11:40, Tom Quarendon wrote:
| So in English what you are saying is that there's a file called Makeconf in the etc directory under the R_HOME that contains the information.
| That certainly seems to be true for Linux. 

And Debian / Ubuntu have a convenience softlink to make this /etc/R/

Also note that 'R CMD config varname' extracts each of these values from the
command-line, rather than R.  And all of this is in the fine manuals you are
cordially invited to peruse at your lesiure ...

Dirk

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