[R-pkg-devel] Error in CHECK caused by dev.off()

[William Dunlap]

R-4.0 introduced a new function, tools::R_user_dir(package, which),
where which is one of "data", "config", and "cache".  It gives
standard directory names in which to place package-and-user-specific
files which you want to last longer than one R session.

I suppose you will still have to ask the user if it is ok to use those
directories, but you might want to put your log files in one of them
instead of in ~/ itself.

Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com

On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 2:15 PM Helmut Schütz <helmut.schuetz using bebac.at> wrote:
>
> Hi Dirk,
>
> Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote on 2020-07-23 15:16:
> > Helmut,
> >
> > For previous uploads you affirmed that you read the CRAN Repository Policy
> > which states
> >
> >       [...]
> >
> > Your package appears to violate that requirement.
>
> As I wrote previously the statement continues with
> "Limited exceptions may be allowed in interactive sessions if the
> package obtains confirmation from the user."
>
> I'm not a native speaker of English but for me "should not write" !=
> "must not write".
>
> >   I would fix the package.
>
> I removed the automatic switch to "~/" if no path is given. As before I
> recommend in the man-pages to give the full path. However, I _still_
> state that "~/" _can_ be used for convenience.
> The package is used in a regulated environment. The output file contains
> an entire audit-trail (name of the user and system, version and date of
> the OS, R, all packages, functions used, time of execution, blablah). If
> the package would write to tempdir() I would have to add a warning in
> bold font of every man-page like "Execute the command tempdir() to find
> out where your result files reside. Copy the files to a safe location
> before you quit the R-session. If you fail to do so, your results will
> be lost."
>
> Off topic: I don't like it that on Windows tempdir is located at
> "C:/Users/{Username}/AppData/Local/Temp/Rtmp..." I strictly separate my
> OSes (on C), software (on D), data (on E), backups (on F). Writing to
> the system disk is not what I prefer. However, in my installation "~/"
> resolves to "E:/Users/{Username}/Documents/"...
>
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