getOperatingSystem {BBmisc}

Functions to determine the operating system.

Description

• getOperatingSystemSimple wrapper for .Platform$OS.type, returns character(1).

• isUnixPredicate for OS string, returns logical(1). Currently this would include Unix, Linux and Mac flavours.

• isLinuxPredicate for sysname string, returns logical(1).

• isDarwinPredicate for sysname string, returns logical(1).

• isWindowsPredicate for OS string, returns logical(1).

Usage

getOperatingSystem()

isWindows()

isUnix()

isLinux()

isDarwin()

Value

See above.