[Rd] Can the output of Sys.getenv() be improved?

Zhang,Jun JHZhang at mdanderson.org
Fri Apr 18 19:58:43 CEST 2014


Thank you very much for your reply. 
This seems better used for Windows.

Best regards,
Jun

-----Original Message-----
From: William Dunlap [mailto:wdunlap at tibco.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 11:50 AM
To: Zhang,Jun; r-devel at r-project.org
Subject: RE: Can the output of Sys.getenv() be improved?

> Within an R session, type Sys.getenv() will list all the environment 
> variables, but each one of them occupies about a page, so scrolling to 
> find one is difficult. Is this because I don't know how to use it or something could be improved?

Attaching the class "simple.list" to the output of Sys.getenv() gives it a nicer print method:

   > structure(Sys.getenv(), class="simple.list")
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(I don't know why print.simple.list adds the line with a hyphen above the 2nd column at the top.)

Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org 
> [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Jun Zhang
> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 9:38 AM
> To: r-devel at r-project.org
> Subject: [Rd] Can the output of Sys.getenv() be improved?
> 
> Within an R session, type Sys.getenv() will list all the environment 
> variables, but each one of them occupies about a page, so scrolling to 
> find one is difficult. Is this because I don't know how to use it or 
> something could be improved? Usually I'm not sure the exact name of a 
> variable but want to look it up. Recently I installed rjags, with the 
> JAGS-3.4.0's lib, include, modules information provided during 
> compilation. When I load rjags, I was told that it linked to JAGS 
> 3.3.0 (a package also available in my environment). This made me think there must be a variable to make that to happen. What can I do to make rjags to link to JAGS 3.4.0?
> 
> Jun
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