Hi all, We have seen this in our own scientific work - namely that '~' in R is expanded `~/Documents' (at least in Windows). If anyone has suggestions on how/why this works as it does, I would be greatly appreciative...
Cheers, Matt On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 3:41 PM Pariksheet Nanda <[email protected]> wrote: > I remember running into something similar with git + RStudio lesson and I > think that was related to how RStudio redefines some environmental > variables on Windows. > > --- > Pariksheet Nanda > PhD Candidate in Genetics and Genomics > System Administrator, Storrs HPC Cluster > University of Connecticut > > > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 9:38 AM Ashwin Srinath <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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 >>> >> >> *The Carpentries <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/latest>* / discuss / > see discussions <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss> + > participants <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/members> + > delivery > options <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription> > Permalink > <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tdeb023c3d8873d39-M4627ac0fec1ec2749953a2cb> > ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tdeb023c3d8873d39-M1afceb114fdf908673e63024 Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
