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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