Re: [Rd] Patch idea: an environment variable for setting the user ID

[Kurt Hornik]

> Will L writes:

> To R-devel,
> In `R CMD build`, the ID of the user is automatically inserted into the
> DESCRIPTION file, e.g.

> Packaged: 2018-11-06 14:01:50 UTC; 


> This is problematic for those of us who work in corporate settings. We must
> not divulge our user IDs in the packages we develop and release.

> Jim Hester pointed out that these two lines in
> `add_build_stamp_to_description_file()`
> 
> are responsible. Could we consider his suggestion of using an optional
> environment variable to overwrite the default behavior?

> user <- Sys.getenv("R_BUILD_USERNAME")
> if (!nzchar(user)) user <- Sys.info()["user"]
> if(user == "unknown") user <- Sys.getenv("LOGNAME")

Yep, something along these lines should be possible.
R_BUILD_USER or R_BUILD_LOGNAME may seem more natural though ...

Best
-k



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[Rd] Patch idea: an environment variable for setting the user ID

[Will L]

To R-devel,


In `R CMD build`, the ID of the user is automatically inserted into the
DESCRIPTION file, e.g.

Packaged: 2018-11-06 14:01:50 UTC; 


This is problematic for those of us who work in corporate settings. We must
not divulge our user IDs in the packages we develop and release.

Jim Hester pointed out that these two lines in
`add_build_stamp_to_description_file()`

are responsible. Could we consider his suggestion of using an optional
environment variable to overwrite the default behavior?

user <- Sys.getenv("R_BUILD_USERNAME")
if (!nzchar(user)) user <- Sys.info()["user"]
if(user == "unknown") user <- Sys.getenv("LOGNAME")

Will Landau
-- 
wlandau.github.io
linkedin.com/in/wlandau
github.com/wlandau

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