On 8 December 2017 at 08:52, Kevin Ushey wrote: | For what it's worth, the Windows installers for other programming | language runtimes often install outside of Program Files, so at least | there is 'prior art' to motivate having R install directly into the | root of the home drive: | | - ActiveState Perl installs directly C:/Perl; | - Python installs (when installing for all users) into C:/Python$VERSION; | - The Ruby installers at https://rubyinstaller.org/ default to the | root home drive. | | So I (as Dirk said earlier) would also be in favor of having R install | directly to the root of the home drive, with e.g. C:/R/R-x.y.z being | the default install location.
Yes! And also keep user-installed packages in C:/R/site-library/ by default. Dirk PS Thanks to an anonymous benefactor who corrected my inaccurate phrasing. -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
