The default was now changed in R-devel to the local application data
(e.g. C:\Users\username\AppData\Local), which should solve the issues
with synchronization/backup/etc services and seems to be more in line
with conventions for the OS. It is a hidden folder, to open in Windows
explorer one can use e.g. shell.exec() from R.
Best
Tomas
On 7/27/21 1:12 PM, Tomas Kalibera wrote:
On 7/26/21 1:44 AM, Steve Haroz wrote:
Thanks Ben. I just sent a request for a bugzilla login.
Jeroen chimed in earlier in support.
Please note this has been reported, discussed and considered already,
last time in PR#17842 (though proposing a different replacement for
the default).
I think changing the default from user documents to something else
would make sense to consider together with some other breaking change
for users, not in isolation, if at all. While the change may help
users with a quota on the documents directory (e.g. shared on a cloud,
backup, etc), it will make it harder to find the library for others,
who would not notice the change to the documented behavior, and I
assume that would still be a much larger group.
Of course it does not help that it is not clear what the correct
location should be now, and certainly there is little hope it won't
change again, soon. My understanding is that the choice was originally
correct when made, following the Microsoft guidelines.
As discussed here as well, users may choose their own library path
(?.libPaths).
The installation location for R itself can be changed e.g. via /DIR
option of the installer (see /?). This is useful e.g. when installing
R only for the current user (/CURRENTUSER) and it impacts also the
location of the library - it is then inside the given tree.
Best
Tomas
Cheers,
Steve
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