R: Exports to an environment

export.list

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Exports to an environment

Description

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.

Author(s)

Roland

References

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

Examples

export.list(list(newly.created.var=5))
newly.created.var
rm(newly.created.var)