detecting operating system in R (e.g. for adaptive .Rprofile files)

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asked Oct 17, 2021 in Technique[技术] by 深蓝 (71.8m points)

I was wondering how to automatically detect operating system in R, for example to place things in the .Rprofile.

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深蓝 · Answer 1 · 2021-10-16T23:10:10+0000

switch(Sys.info()[['sysname']],
Windows= {print("I'm a Windows PC.")},
Linux  = {print("I'm a penguin.")},
Darwin = {print("I'm a Mac.")})

Since it took me more than a trivial amount of time to sort this out, I thought other would benefit as well.

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