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Exports to an environment

Source: R/export.R
export.list.Rd

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

See also

export(), assign()

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