[R] quartz() and windows()

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Sun Dec 7 19:19:36 CET 2008


One way (from my MacPro OS X 10.5.5):

 > .Platform$OS.type
[1] "unix"

Another:

 > Sys.info()["sysname"]
  sysname
"Darwin"

The help pages say NOT to do this:
 > R.version$os
[1] "darwin9.5.0"

--  
David Winsemius

On Dec 7, 2008, at 11:17 AM, Nino Hardt wrote:

> Hi,
>
> when windows and mac users collaborate, one always has to use  
> search&replace
> on the quartz() function.
>
> Is there a better way? Some command which tells whether one is  
> working in a
> Windows or OSX setting?
>
>
>
> Thanks
> Nino
>
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