Raniere,

Yes, I've had lots of issues similar to this one, where "~/Desktop" is
actually some other directory (not the Desktop that users "see" when they
log in). I don't know a good solution other than to ask them to keep this
folder open in a file manager. It's good to be prepared to deal with this
issue at each workshop.

Thanks,
Ashwin

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 9:31 AM, Raniere Silva <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was teaching R yesterday and when running
>
> setwd(("~/Desktop"))
>
> the users of Windows went to "C:\Users\Foo\Documents\Desktop" instead of
> "C:\Users\Foo\Desktop".
>
> Did you see similar behaviour before?
>
> Cheers,
> Raniere
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