whoami
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.
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# whoami
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> Username, full name, email address, GitHub username of the current user
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](https://github.com/sindresorhus/username),
[sindresorhus/fullname](https://github.com/sindresorhus/fullname),
[sindresorhus/github-username](https://github.com/sindresorhus/github-username),
[paulirish/github-email](https://github.com/paulirish/github-email).
## Installation
```r
devtools::install_github("r-lib/whoami")
```
## Usage
```r
library(whoami)
username()
```
```
#> [1] "gaborcsardi"
```
```r
fullname()
```
```
#> [1] "Gabor Csardi"
```
```r
email_address()
```
```
#> [1] "csardi.gabor@gmail.com"
```
```r
gh_username()
```
```
#> [1] "gaborcsardi"
```
```r
whoami()
```
```
#> username fullname email_address
#> "gaborcsardi" "Gabor Csardi" "csardi.gabor@gmail.com"
#> gh_username
#> "gaborcsardi"
```
## License
MIT © [Gábor Csárdi](http://gaborcsardi.org)
Versions across snapshots
| Version | Repository | File | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
1.3.0 |
2026-04-09 windows/windows R-4.5 | whoami_1.3.0.zip |
32.0 KiB |