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

[stefano iacus]

what about

 > system("uname")
Darwin

stefano
p.s. if one day R will run on the iPhone, you have to change the  
question below into "Do you see an apple logo somewhere on your  
device?")

On 20/set/07, at 00:37, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:

> 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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