[Rd] How to test if R is running on a Mac

Hin-Tak Leung hin-tak.leung at cimr.cam.ac.uk
Thu Sep 20 00:37:52 CEST 2007


On linux boxes,
   version$os and R.version$os
is 'linux-gnu'. I assume that it would be 'darwin-apple' on
Mac's?

Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> isApple <- function(...) {
>   isApple <- FALSE;
>   tryCatch({
>     ans <- readline("Do you see an Apple key on the keyboard you are
> typing on? yes/no");
>     isApple <- (ans == "yes");
>   }, mouseClick = function(ex) {
>     isApple <<- TRUE;
>   })
> }
> 
> /H
> 
> 
> On 9/19/07, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
>> On 9/19/2007 9:41 AM, Gorjanc Gregor wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Is there any way to test if R is running on a Mac? I usually use
>>> value of .Platform$OS.type for windows or unix, but Mac falls in the
>>> latter group.
>> Remember to also look at .Platform$GUI:  the GUI version behaves quite
>> differently from command line R from a user's point of view (both on the
>> Mac and on Windows), and occasionally from a programmer's point of view
>> (e.g. the graphics device on the Mac).
>>
>> Duncan
>>
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