Exports to an environment

This function is a wrapper around export.list() that exports variables by their name to another environment.

Usage

export(..., target.env = .GlobalEnv)

Arguments

...

variables to be exported.

target.env

The target environment. Use the global environment by default.

Value

Invisible NULL.

References

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

See also

export.list(), assign()

Author

Roland

Examples

local({
  newly.created.var <- 5
  export(newly.created.var)
})
newly.created.var
#> [1] 5
rm(newly.created.var)
#> Warning: object 'newly.created.var' not found