[Rd] location of check.Renviron on Windows

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 01/02/2012 19:57, Robert M. Flight wrote:
> Thanks Simon, that did the ticket. Will remember that next time.

It is also an FAQ:

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#What-are-HOME-and-working-directories_003f

> -Robert
>
> Robert M. Flight, Ph.D.
> University of Louisville Bioinformatics Laboratory
> University of Louisville
> Louisville, KY
>
> PH 502-852-1809 (HSC)
> PH 502-852-0467 (Belknap)
> EM robert.flight at louisville.edu
> EM rflight79 at gmail.com
> robertmflight.blogspot.com
> bioinformatics.louisville.edu/lab
>
> The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
> discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..." -
> Isaac Asimov
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 14:52, Simon Urbanek<simon.urbanek at r-project.org>  wrote:
>>
>> On Feb 1, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Robert M. Flight wrote:
>>
>>> Doing package development on a Windows 7 machine, and I want to tell R
>>> check not to worry about the "suggested" packages.
>>>
>>> I realize this can be done using the ~/.R/check.Renviron file, but
>>> what directory corresponds to "~"? Is that supposed to be the user
>>> directory? Or is it some other directory?
>>>
>>
>> Ask R:
>>
>>> normalizePath("~")
>> [1] "C:\\Users\\urbanek\\Documents"
>>
>> Cheers,
>> S
>>
>>
>>> I have this _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_=false (have also tried FALSE) in
>>> C:\Users\username\.R
>>>
>>> I have also tried putting the file in C:\Users\username
>>>
>>> Using r58183
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> -Robert
>>>
>>> Robert M. Flight, Ph.D.
>>> University of Louisville Bioinformatics Laboratory
>>> University of Louisville
>>> Louisville, KY
>>>
>>> PH 502-852-1809 (HSC)
>>> PH 502-852-0467 (Belknap)
>>> EM robert.flight at louisville.edu
>>> EM rflight79 at gmail.com
>>> robertmflight.blogspot.com
>>> bioinformatics.louisville.edu/lab
>>>
>>> The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
>>> discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..." -
>>> Isaac Asimov
>>>
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