Does Windows allow creating a symlink to "C:/Program Files"? If so, R could install into the conventional Windows location, but use the symlink for all its access, yes?
Windows 10 command = mklink On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Zach Bjornson <zbbjorn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for fixing this! > > 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: > > > This is actually a pretty big peeve of mine. "Program Files" is where > programs are *supposed* to reside on Windows. > > >> Related (but moderately more advanced), why does R still install > "everything" > >> under one (versioned) directory so that uninformed users on upgrade > "miss" > >> all previously installed packages? > > > Will this work for native (C/C++) packages? I thought they need to have > matching ABIs with the R executable. > > Zach > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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
