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.)

Best wishes,
Jie

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley@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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