Information about the current platform

Source: R/platform-info.R

Information about the current platform

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.

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

platform_info()
#>  setting  value                       
#>  version  R version 3.6.2 (2019-12-12)
#>  os       Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS          
#>  system   x86_64, linux-gnu           
#>  ui       X11                         
#>  language (EN)                        
#>  collate  en_US.UTF-8                 
#>  ctype    en_US.UTF-8                 
#>  tz       America/New_York            
#>  date     2020-03-11