Get Path Object from Environment

Retrieves a path object from the specified environment using non-standard evaluation. The function uses substitute() to capture the unevaluated expression and get() to retrieve the corresponding object.

Usage

get_path(path, envir = getOption("envsetup.path.environment"))

Arguments

path

An unquoted name of the path object to retrieve from the environment.

envir

The environment to search for the path object. Defaults to the value of getOption("envsetup.path.environment").

Value

The path object stored in the specified environment under the given name.

See also

get, substitute

Examples

# Create a custom environment and store some paths
path_env <- new.env()
assign("data_dir", "/home/user/data", envir = path_env)
assign("output_dir", "/home/user/output", envir = path_env)

# Set up the option to use our custom environment
options(envsetup.path.environment = path_env)

# Retrieve paths using the function
data_path <- get_path(data_dir)
output_path <- get_path(output_dir)

print(data_path)    # "/home/user/data"
#> [1] "/home/user/data"
print(output_path)  # "/home/user/output"
#> [1] "/home/user/output"

# Using with a different environment
temp_env <- new.env()
assign("temp_dir", "/tmp/analysis", envir = temp_env)
temp_path <- get_path(temp_dir, envir = temp_env)
print(temp_path)    # "/tmp/analysis"
#> [1] "/tmp/analysis"