Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10006211904440.20797-100000@auk.stats>
Date: 2000-06-21T18:06:50Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: OS calls
In-Reply-To: <3950F05D.A40D22FD@bank-banque-canada.ca>
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Paul Gilbert wrote:
> Brian
>
> >> local.host.netname <- function() {system.call("uname -n")}
> >> whoami <- function(){system.call("whoami")} # return user id (for mail)
>
> >Those are not even meaningful on vanilla (non-networked) Windows systems. I
> >am not really sure why one would want them in general R code.
>
> I thought whoami was meanful on Windows NT even without a network, but in any
NT, yes, Win 9x, no, and Win 9x is > 90% of the market.
> case it is true that I want it for a network environment. You could put in
> somewhat meaningful defaults like "localhost" and "root", but I think most
> people are on a network these days.
I doubt it. DUN does not count as a network for these purposes, and indeed
the local and network IDs can be different even on NT (and frequently are).
--
Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
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