An R package that parses javascript object notation (JSON) formatted arguments into R environments.
Sometimes it is convenient for R-function arguments to be a JSON named list, rather than properly declared formals. For example: web applications where R is in a pipeline (possibly as an Rserve instance) with other web technologies that use JSON for passing information.
Install with the devtools package.
devtools::install_github("msinjin/json2env")
library(json2env)
json_args <- '{"a" : 3, "b" : 4, "c" : 5}'
my_fun <- function(json_args, a = 1, b = 2, d = 6, replace = T) {
json2env(json_args, replace = replace)
print(c(a, b, c, d))
}
my_fun(json_args) # [1] 3 4 5 6
my_fun(json_args, replace = F) # [1] 1 2 5 6
Note that json2env does not have a return value and so does not need to be assigned (<-).