On 22/11/2021 11:46 a.m., Jiefei Wang wrote:
Hi, I have a new win system and try to install R as usual. Somehow,
the environment variable "R_LIBS_USER" is incorrectly pointed to a
Onedrive folder. Since "R_LIBS_USER" depends on "R_USER", the root
problem then becomes why "R_USER" is the path to the Onedrive. I did
an exhausting search in the R directory and the only related message I
can find is from EnvVar.html, which states
R_USER: The user's ‘home’ directory. Set by R. (HOME will be set to
the same value if not already set.)
I guess that's another way to say "no document is available yet". I
also took a look at my system environment variables but there are only
two variables related to Onedrive, they are
OneDrive=C:\Users\wangj\OneDrive
OneDriveConsumer=C:\Users\wangj\OneDrive
so everything looks pretty normal, I know I can correct this issue by
manually adding Renviron but I just wonder where this default behavior
comes from...
I think you want to look at the Windows FAQ. From question 2.14:
The home directory is set as follows: If environment variable R_USER is
set, its value is used. Otherwise if environment variable HOME is set,
its value is used. After those two user-controllable settings, R tries
to find system-defined home directories. It first tries to use the
Windows "personal" directory (typically C:\Users\username\Documents). If
that fails, if both environment variables HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH are set
(and they normally are), the value is ${HOMEDRIVE}${HOMEPATH}. If all of
these fail, the current working directory is used.
Duncan Murdoch
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