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Environment variables

Source: R/env.R
with_envvar.Rd

Temporarily change system environment variables.

Usage

with_envvar(new, code, action = "replace")

local_envvar(
  .new = list(),
  ...,
  action = "replace",
  .local_envir = parent.frame()
)

Arguments

new, .new

[named character]
New environment variables

code

[any]
Code to execute in the temporary environment

action

should new values "replace", "prefix" or "suffix" existing variables with the same name.

...

Named arguments with new environment variables.

.local_envir

[environment]
The environment to use for scoping.

Value

[any]
The results of the evaluation of the code

argument.

Details

if NA is used those environment variables will be unset. If there are any duplicated variable names only the last one is used.

See also

withr for examples

Sys.setenv()

Examples

with_envvar(new = c("GITHUB_PAT" = "abcdef"), Sys.getenv("GITHUB_PAT"))
#> [1] "abcdef"

# with_envvar unsets variables after usage
Sys.getenv("TEMP_SECRET")
#> [1] ""
with_envvar(new = c("TEMP_SECRET" = "secret"), Sys.getenv("TEMP_SECRET"))
#> [1] "secret"
Sys.getenv("TEMP_SECRET")
#> [1] ""