[R] use R to read/print the system hardware configuration

[David Winsemius]

On Jul 30, 2012, at 8:42 AM, Jie wrote:

> Sorry to miss the OS information. I run it on Window 7 32 bit, 64  
> bit and
> Unix (version unclear, it is a grid machine.)

Have you looked at:

?.Machine


-- 
David.
>
> Best wishes,
> Jie
>
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
> <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote:
>
>> On 30/07/2012 16:08, Jie wrote:
>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> I am curious if there is any why to use R to know the  
>>> specification of the
>>> machine that runs on,
>>> i.e. read the cpu model, memory size, those hardware info, maybe  
>>> even with
>>> thesoftware information.
>>> Thank you for your attention.
>>>
>>
>> There are ways ... however, there are no remotely portable ways and  
>> you
>> have not even told us your OS (as asked for in the posting guide).
>>
>> This sort of thing depends not just on the OS but the precise  
>> version of
>> the OS.  Look at paralllel::detectCores() for how hard one has to  
>> work to
>> get the number of processors.
>>
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>> Jie
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David Winsemius, MD
Alameda, CA, USA