Utility function copied directly from the package 'tis' by Jeff Hallman (https://github.com/cran/tis/blob/master/R/assignList.R) Assigns the values in a list to variables in an environment. The variable names are taken from the names of the list, so all of the elements of the list must have non-blank names.

Utility function copied directly from the package 'tis' by Jeff Hallman (https://github.com/cran/tis/blob/master/R/assignList.R) Assigns the values in a list to variables in an environment. The variable names are taken from the names of the list, so all of the elements of the list must have non-blank names.

assignList(aList, pos = -1, envir = as.environment(pos), inherits = FALSE)