.Platform

R Base 3.6.2

.Platform is a list with some details of the platform under which R was built. This provides means to write OS-portable R code.

Syntax

.Platform

Return Value

A list with at least the following components: OS.typecharacter string, giving the Operating System (family) of the computer. One of "unix" or "windows". file.sepcharacter string, giving the file separator used on your platform: "/" on both Unix-alikes and on Windows (but not on the former port to Classic Mac OS). dynlib.extcharacter string, giving the file name extension of dynamically loadable libraries, e.g., ".dll" on Windows and ".so" or ".sl" on Unix-alikes. (Note for macOS users: these ar

Examples

Example

# NOT RUN {
## Note: this can be done in a system-independent way by dir.exists()
if(.Platform$OS.type == "unix") {
   system.test <- function(...) system(paste("test", ...)) == 0L
   dir.exists2 <- function(dir)
       sapply(dir, function(d) system.test("-d", d))
   dir.exists2(c(R.home(), "/tmp", "~", "/NO")) # > T T T F
}
# }

.Platform

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