R: Human readable name of the current operating system

os_name {sessioninfo} | R Documentation

## Human readable name of the current operating system

### Description

For example Windows 8.1 instead of Windows version 6.3.9600. On macOS it includes the code names, on Linux it includes the distribution names and codenames if appropriate.

### Usage

    os_name()

### Details

It uses [utils::sesssionInfo()], but simplifies its output a bit on Windows, to make it more concise.

### Value

A character scalar.

[Package sessioninfo version 1.0.0 Index]