RandomFieldsUtils (version 0.5.3)

host: System calls

Description

The functions hostname and pid return the host name and the PID, respectively.

Usage

hostname()
pid()

Value

hostname

returns a string

pid

returns an unsigned integer

Details

If R runs on a unix platform the host name and the PID are returned, otherwise the empty string and naught, respectively.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
cat("The name of your computer is '", hostname(),
    "'. Your R program has current pid ", pid(), ".\n", sep="")
# }

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