On 22 January 2016 at 11:40, Tom Quarendon wrote: | So in English what you are saying is that there's a file called Makeconf in the etc directory under the R_HOME that contains the information. | That certainly seems to be true for Linux.
And Debian / Ubuntu have a convenience softlink to make this /etc/R/ Also note that 'R CMD config varname' extracts each of these values from the command-line, rather than R. And all of this is in the fine manuals you are cordially invited to peruse at your lesiure ... Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel