Username, Full Name, Email Address, 'GitHub' Username of the Current User

Look up the username and full name of the current user, the current user's email address and 'GitHub' username, using various sources of system and configuration information.

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.

Related JavaScript packages: sindresorhus/username, sindresorhus/fullname, sindresorhus/github-username, paulirish/github-email.

Installation

devtools::install_github("r-lib/whoami")

Usage

library(whoami)
username()

#> [1] "gaborcsardi"

fullname()

#> [1] "Gabor Csardi"

email_address()

#> [1] "[email protected]"

gh_username()

#> [1] "gaborcsardi"

whoami()

#>                 username                 fullname            email_address 
#>            "gaborcsardi"           "Gabor Csardi" "[email protected]" 
#>              gh_username 
#>            "gaborcsardi"

License

MIT © Gábor Csárdi