Human readable name of the current operating system

Source: R/osname.R

For example Windows 8.1 instead of Windows version 6.3.9600. On macOS it includes the code names, on Linux it includes the distribution names and codenames if appropriate.

os_name()

Value

A character scalar.

Details

It uses utils::sessionInfo(), but simplifies its output a bit on Windows, to make it more concise.