I use Sys.info()["sysname"]. It returns "Darwin" on a Mac, "Windows" on MS Windows and "Linux" on my Linux box. Is this sufficient for your needs, I'm using R-2.6.0alpha on MS Windows and 2.5.0 on Mac and Linux at the moment.
cheers, Keith Satterley Bioinformatics Division The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Send R-devel mailing list submissions to > r-devel@r-project.org > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:41:22 +0200 > From: Gorjanc Gregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Rd] How to test if R is running on a Mac > To: "r-devel@r-project.org" <r-devel@r-project.org> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi! > > Is there any way to test if R is running on a Mac? I usually use > value of .Platform$OS.type for windows or unix, but Mac falls in the > latter group. > > Thanks, Gregor ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
