Extract Options Matching a Pattern

Returns a subset of the current R session options whose names match a given pattern.

Usage

extract_options(pattern = "", case_sensitive = FALSE)

Arguments

pattern

Character string. Pattern to search for in option names. If empty (""), all options are returned.

case_sensitive

Logical. If TRUE, pattern matching is case-sensitive. Default is FALSE.

Value

A list of matched options, or all options if pattern is "". If no matches are found, returns NULL (invisibly) and prints a message.

Author

Ahmed El-Gabbas

Examples

# all options with "warn" in the name (case-insensitive)
ecokit::extract_options("warn")
#> $nwarnings
#> [1] 50
#> 
#> $showWarnCalls
#> [1] FALSE
#> 
#> $spam.inefficiencywarning
#> [1] 1e+06
#> 
#> $warn
#> [1] 0
#> 
#> $warnPartialMatchArgs
#> [1] FALSE
#> 
#> $warnPartialMatchAttr
#> [1] FALSE
#> 
#> $warnPartialMatchDollar
#> [1] FALSE
#> 
#> $warning.length
#> [1] 1000
#> 

# options starting with "r" (case-sensitive)
ecokit::extract_options("^r", TRUE)
#> $repos
#>                                                          RSPM 
#> "https://packagemanager.posit.co/cran/__linux__/noble/latest" 
#>                                                          CRAN 
#>                                    "https://cran.rstudio.com" 
#> 
#> $rl_word_breaks
#> [1] " \t\n\"\\'`><=%;,|&{()}"
#> 
#> $rlang_interactive
#> [1] FALSE
#> 
#> $rlang_trace_top_env
#> <environment: 0x55ba00e39f78>
#>