getConfig: Return a System Configuration Setting

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) See Also Examples

Description

Retrieve one configuration setting

Usage

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getConfig(var, path = ".")

Arguments

var

An character object specifying a value for which configuration is queried.

path

An optional character object specifying a path. Default is the current directory.

Details

This functions returns the configuration setting for a given input. in a data.frame object. The system-level functions sysconf, pathconf and confstr provide the underlying information.

Value

A result value corresponding to the requested setting. The return type can be either integer for a numeric value, character for text or NULL in case to value could be retrieved.

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

See Also

getAll

Examples

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if (Sys.info()[["sysname"]] != "SunOS") {
    getConfig("_NPROCESSORS_CONF")   # number of processor
    getConfig("LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE")  # leve1 cache size
    getConfig("GNU_LIBC_VERSION")    # libc version
}

RcppGetconf documentation built on May 1, 2019, 9:45 p.m.