Sys.putenv {base}R Documentation

Set Environment Variables

Description

putenv sets environment variables (for other processes called from within R or future calls to Sys.getenv from this R process).

Usage

Sys.putenv(...)

Arguments

... arguments in name=value form, with value coercible to a character string.

Details

Non-standard R names must be quoted: see the Examples section.

Value

A logical vector of the same length as x, with elements being true if setting the corresponding variable succeeded.

Note

Not all systems need support Sys.putenv (although all known current platforms do).

See Also

Sys.getenv, Startup for ways to set environment variables for the R session.

setwd for the working directory.

Examples

print(Sys.putenv(R_TEST="testit", "A+C"=123))
Sys.getenv("R_TEST")

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