>>>>> "PaulG" == Paul Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Thu, 04 Nov 2004 20:26:04 -0500 writes:
>> If you want the R version, that is 'R --version'.
>>
>>
PaulG> I've been using this, but to make it into a file name
PaulG> I need to do some stripping out of the extra
PaulG> stuff. (And tail and head on Solaris do not use -n
PaulG> whereas Linux wants this, so it becomes difficult to
PaulG> be portable.) Is there a way to get just "R-2.0.1"
PaulG> from R or R CMD something?
yes, by applying Brian's advice and good ol' "sed" :
R --version | sed -n '1s/ /-/; 1s/ .*//p'
Martin
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