Exports to an environment

This function is a wrapper around assign() that exports the contents of a named list to an environment. The variable names in the target environment are constructed from the names of the list items or taken from a separate argument.

export.list(arg.list, arg.names = names(arg.list), target.env = .GlobalEnv)

Arguments

arg.list	list of objects, possibly named.
arg.names	names to use for the items in the target environment. Use the names of arg.list by default.
target.env	The target environment. Use the global environment by default.

Value

Invisible NULL.

References

http://stackoverflow.com/a/17484932/946850

See also

export, assign

Examples

export.list(list(newly.created.var=5))
newly.created.var
#> [1] 5
rm(newly.created.var)
#> Warning: object 'newly.created.var' not found