Not able to create a project on Windows

[maelle]

cf r-lib/whoami#4

[annakrystalli]

Related to issue noted in #25 by @tdjames1. @tdjames1, out of curiosity, what does system("git config --global --list", intern = TRUE) return on your machine?

[tdjames1]

Hey @annakrystalli, here's the abbreviated output:

> system("git config --global --list", intern = TRUE)
[1] "user.name=T***** James"                                                                                                                                      
[2] "user.email=t*****@***********"                                                                                        
[3] "core.editor=emacs"   
<snip>

[maelle]

so does whoami::email_address() work on your machine?

[tdjames1]

Yes. 👍

[maelle]

Ok, is the email address you registered on GitHub?

[tdjames1]

Yes, but it is set as private. I figured that was why whoami::gh_username() couldn't find me so (as noted in #25) I tried setting up an authorization token to allow access to my email address (via GitHub > Settings > Developer settings > Personal access tokens) but that didn't resolve the problem.

[maelle]

@tjames1 now you can set an environment variable GITHUB_USERNAME cf https://github.com/r-lib/whoami