Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 10/02/2008 1:07 PM, Erin Hodgess wrote: >> Hi R People: >> >> I sure that this is a really easy question, but here goes: >> >> I'm trying to build a package that will run on both Linux and Windows. >> >> However, there are several commands in a section that will be >> different in Linux than they are in Windows. >> >> Would I be better off just to build two separate packages, please? >> If just one is needed, how could I determine which system is running >> in order to use the correct command, please? > > You will find it much easier to build just one package. > > You can use .Platform or (for more detail) Sys.info() to find out what > kind of system you're running on. Remember that R doesn't just run on > Linux and Windows: there's also MacOSX, and other Unix and Unix-like > systems (Solaris, etc.).
Erin, moreover, R has some nice facility that allows to write a function for Windows, another one for Mac and a thirs one for Unix-alikes and place them in subfolders of ./R with the right names, see the Writing R Extensions manual. Uwe Ligges > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
