The codes:
# system info
system("uname -srv", intern = TRUE)
# dir
system('pwd',intern=T)
# date time
system("date", intern = TRUE)
# R system info, packages, etc
sessionInfo()
# save session environment
save.image(compress = TRUE)
Example outputs:
# system info
system("uname -srv", intern = TRUE)
## [1] "Linux 2.6.32-642.4.2.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Aug 23 19:58:13 UTC 2016"
# date time
system("date", intern = TRUE)
## [1] "Tue Nov 29 19:44:08 EST 2016"
sessionInfo()
## R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21)
## Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit)
## Running under: CentOS release 6.8 (Final)
##
## locale:
## [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
## [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
## [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
## [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
## [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
## [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
##
## attached base packages:
## [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
##
## loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
## [1] magrittr_1.5 formatR_1.4 tools_3.3.1 htmltools_0.3.5
## [5] yaml_2.1.13 Rcpp_0.12.6 stringi_1.1.1 rmarkdown_1.0
## [9] knitr_1.13 stringr_1.0.0 digest_0.6.10 evaluate_0.9
# save session environment
save.image(compress = TRUE)