Information about the current platform

Information about the current platform

Usage

platform_info()

Value

A list with elements:

• version: the R version string.

• os: the OS name in human readable format, see os_name().

• system: CPU, and machine readable OS name, separated by a comma.

• ui: the user interface, e.g. Rgui, RTerm, etc. see GUI in base::.Platform.

• language: The current language setting. The LANGUAGE environment variable, if set, or (EN) if unset.

• collate: Collation rule, from the current locale.

• ctype: Native character encoding, from the current locale.

• tz: The current time zone.

• date: The current date.

• rstudio: RStudio format string, only added in RStudio.

• pandoc: pandoc version and path

See also

Similar functions and objects in the base packages: base::R.version.string, utils::sessionInfo(), base::version, base::.Platform, base::Sys.getlocale(), base::Sys.timezone().

Examples

if (FALSE) {
platform_info()
}