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.

Usage

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

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

Author

Roland

Examples

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