[R] quartz() and windows()

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 7 Dec 2008, Marc Schwartz wrote:

> on 12/07/2008 10:17 AM Nino Hardt wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> when windows and mac users collaborate, one always has to use search&replace
>> on the quartz() function.
>>
>> Is there a better way? Some command which tells whether one is working in a
>> Windows or OSX setting?
>
> See ?.Platform

Or in this case, ?dev.new, which covers all platforms, even 
non-interactive use.

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