Sys.setenv | R Documentation |
Sys.setenv
sets environment variables (for other processes
called from within R or future calls to Sys.getenv
from
this R process).
Sys.unsetenv
removes environment variables.
Sys.setenv(...) Sys.unsetenv(x)
... |
named arguments with values coercible to a character string. |
x |
a character vector, or an object coercible to character. |
Non-standard R names must be quoted in Sys.setenv
: see the
examples. Most platforms (and POSIX) do not allow names containing
"="
. Windows does, but the facilities provided by R may not
handle these correctly so they should be avoided. Most platforms
allow setting an environment variable to ""
, but Windows does
not and there Sys.setenv(FOO = "")
unsets FOO.
There may be system-specific limits on the maximum length of the values of individual environment variables or of names+values of all environment variables.
Recent versions of Windows have a maximum length of 32,767 characters for a
environment variable; however cmd.exe
has a limit of 8192
characters for a command line, hence set
can only set 8188.
A logical vector, with elements being true if (un)setting the
corresponding variable succeeded. (For Sys.unsetenv
this
includes attempting to remove a non-existent variable.)
On Unix-alikes, if Sys.unsetenv
is not supported, it will at
least try to set the value of the environment variable to ""
,
with a warning.
Sys.getenv
, Startup for ways to set environment
variables for the R session.
setwd
for the working directory.
The help for ‘environment variables’ lists many of the environment variables used by R.
print(Sys.setenv(R_TEST = "testit", "A+C" = 123)) # `A+C` could also be used Sys.getenv("R_TEST") Sys.unsetenv("R_TEST") # on Unix-alike may warn and not succeed Sys.getenv("R_TEST", unset = NA)
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