[R] how can I write code to detect whether the machine is Windows or Linux?

[Peter Dalgaard]

Marc Schwartz wrote:
>
>
> It's always dangerous to say always, but "in general", the use of:
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>   Path/To/File
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> with *forward* slashes, will work on both Windows and Linux, including 
> the use of relative paths.
>
Also, notice the existence of file.path() and system.file(). (Other 
separators than forward and backward slashes have been used in the path; 
e.g. on original MacOS, the colon was used.)

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