whoami {whoami}R Documentation

User name and full name of the current user

Description

Calls username and fullname.

Usage

whoami()

Details

For the username it tries the 'LOGNAME', 'USER', 'LNAME' and 'USERNAME' environment variables first. If these are all unset, or set to an empty string, then it tries running 'id' on Unix-like systems and 'whoami' on Windows.

For the full name of the user, it queries the system services and also tries the user's global git configuration. On Windows, it tries finding the global git configuration in ‘Sys.getenv("USERPROFILE")' if it doesn’t find it in 'Sys.getenv("HOME")' (often "Documents").

For the email address it uses the user's global git configuration. It tries finding the global git configuration in 'Sys.getenv("USERPROFILE")' if it doesn't find it in 'Sys.getenv("HOME")'.

For the GitHub username it uses the 'GITHUB_USERNAME' environment variable then it tries searching on GitHub for the user's email address.

Value

A named character vector with entries: username, fullname, email_address, gh_username.

See Also

Other user names: email_address, fullname, gh_username, username

Examples

## Not run: 
whoami()

## End(Not run)

[Package whoami version 1.2.0 Index]