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Detect the current platform

Source: R/platform.R
detect_platform.Rd

Detects the host operating system and, on Linux, parses /etc/os-release. On macOS, queries sw_vers. Returns a structured platform object used by the rest of the package. When os_release is supplied and exists, the file is parsed even on macOS or Windows; this makes fixture-driven testing practical.

Usage

detect_platform(os_release = "/etc/os-release")

Arguments

os_release

Path to an os-release file. Defaults to the system file /etc/os-release. Mainly useful for tests and reproducible builds.

Value

An object of class sysreqr_platform (a list).

See also

Other platform: detect_package_manager(), resolve_platform()

Examples

platform <- detect_platform()
platform$distro
#> [1] "ubuntu"

# Reproducible reads from a fixture file:
fixture <- system.file(
  "extdata", "os-release-fedora-40",
  package = "sysreqr",
  mustWork = FALSE
)
if (nzchar(fixture)) detect_platform(os_release = fixture)