Thank you for the update. Really helpful! Between this and the unicode changes, the next version will have a very positive impact on Windows users.
Best, Steve On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 1:02 PM Tomas Kalibera <tomas.kalib...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
