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...is, how is the right platform determined at runtime? > ... There seems to be an assumption here that RHOME will be the same no matter what machine you are running on. I would set RHOME depending on the machine, eg. RHOME=/usr/local/lib/R-Sun4 RHOME=/usr/local/lib/R-Sun5 RHOME=/usr/local/lib/R-Linux386 and then use links to the XDR files and other files which are not machine dependent, so they do not have to be duplicated. Determining the platform universally may be fairly difficult, but at a given site there is usually a fairly small mix of machines and it is possible to write a shell script t...