[Rd] Feature request: Change default library path on Windows
Duncan Murdoch
murdoch@dunc@n @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Sun Jul 25 15:31:55 CEST 2021
On 25/07/2021 6:17 a.m., Steve Haroz wrote:
>> I think the benefits of fixing the default behavior easily outweigh the
>> backward-compatibility and "there is a documented workaround"
>> arguments.
>
> Exactly. This is an accessibility issue and a serious barrier for some
> beginners. It's possible to work around the error message, but users
> should not have to do a workaround the very first time they install a
> couple libraries.
> Many users synching with one of several popular cloud services and
> many users whose Documents folder is managed by a Network IT policy
> will run into this issue.
>
> Moving the R libraries from USER/Documents/R to USER/R will help avoid
> "attrition" of beginners.
Shouldn't it be in one of the AppData directories? (I'm not sure of
this; Windows guidelines for file locations are not easy to find, and
change between versions.)
Duncan Murdoch
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