[R] what OS

[Uwe Ligges]

Liaw, Andy wrote:
>>From: Sundar Dorai-Raj
>>
>>Omar Lakkis wrote:
>>
>>>How can I determine whT OS I am running under?
>>>
>>>if WINDOWS do this 
>>>if LINUX do that
>>>
>>
>>Hi, Omar,
>>
>>Look at version$os.
>>
>> > # windows
>> > version$os
>>[1] "mingw32"
>>
>> > # linux
>> > version$os
>>[1] "linux-gnu"
> 
> 
> Or see ?.Platform.

Yes, please follow Andy and use .Platform, and in particular nothing 
else for programming!
It is *not* guaranteed that on Windows version$os == "mingw32".

Uwe Ligges




> Andy
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>>HTH,
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>>--sundar
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