From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Thu Jun 27 14:21:42 2002
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 14:21:42 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Testing for platform type
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0206271414520.22911-100000@gannet.stats>

The recommended way to test for a platform type is via .Platform$OS.type.
machine() has provided equivalent information, but will be deprecated in
1.6.0.

Using R.Version()$os == "Win32" does not work as the OS name is subject to
change, and is never `Win32' in R 1.5.x, where autoconf was used to make
the config.h file.

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
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