whoami (version 1.2.0)

whoami: User name and full name of the current user

Description

Calls username and fullname.

Usage

whoami()

Value

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

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.

See Also

Other user names: email_address, fullname, gh_username, username

Examples

# NOT RUN {
whoami()
# }