I didn't know about .Platform$OS.type, but that looks like it would be the better choice, as the help for Sys.info says "This function is not implemented on all R platforms, and returns NULL when not available."
--Lee On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Christoph Knapp <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for that I already came across .Platform$OS.type and use that in my > code. It returns "unix" not "Linux" though. Which one would you recommend? _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian

