On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Tom Quarendon <tom.quaren...@teamwpc.co.uk> wrote: [...] > Anyway, thanks for the info. The Makeconf file is what I want. At least on > Linux, doesn't appear to exist on our OSX installation, but we probably > installed that from a pre-built package. Ditto Windows.
Strange, it is there for me on OSX, and I am also using a stock DMG. For windows the directory structure is (typically?) different because it has two sub-architectures, but there is some configuration info there AFAIR. Gabor > -----Original Message----- > From: Dirk Eddelbuettel [mailto:e...@debian.org] > Sent: 22 January 2016 12:07 > To: Tom Quarendon <tom.quaren...@teamwpc.co.uk> > Cc: Gábor Csárdi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com>; r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] Return options used to configure R > > > 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
