R help - Mar 2006 - Branching, depending upon operating system

Hello all!
>From my current code, I need to call either a batch file or shell script,
depending on what operating system R is running. But before that I need to
find out, whether the machine is running Windows or Linux. I found the
"getBuiltinOs()" command in the utils package, but I cant get it to
work. It
really shouldn`t be difficult, but how can I do an if-branch using that (or
a different) command?

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Regards,
Frank Rossdeutscher

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On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Frank Rossdeutscher wrote:
> From my current code, I need to call either a batch file or shell script,
> depending on what operating system R is running. But before that I need to
> find out, whether the machine is running Windows or Linux. I found the
> "getBuiltinOs()" command in the utils package, but I cant get it
to work. It
There is no such function in that or any other standard or CRAN package, 
but there is such a method for a class in the contributed R.utils package.
> really shouldn`t be difficult, but how can I do an if-branch using that (or
> a different) command?
?.Platform shows you how.
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> Regards,
> Frank Rossdeutscher
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On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Frank Rossdeutscher wrote:
> From my current code, I need to call either a batch
> file or shell script, depending on what operating system
> R is running. But before that I need to find out, whether
> the machine is running Windows or Linux. I found the
> "getBuiltinOs()" command in the utils package, but I cant
> get it to work. It really shouldn`t be difficult, but how
> can I do an if-branch using that (or a different) command?
system(if (.Platform$OS.type == "windows") {
           "myscript.cmd"
       } else {
           "myscript.sh"
       })

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