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> This is actually a pretty big peeve of mine. "Program Files" is where
> programs are *supposed* to reside on Windows.
>
PS -- Microsoft's reasoning is explained in "Why do program files go into
the Program Files directory?"
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20120307-00/?p=8153
The
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.
Hello,
R appears to assume that Windows drives have short file names (SFN, 8.3)
enabled; for example, that "C:/Program Files/..." is addressable as
"C:/Progra~1/...". Newer versions of Windows have SFN disabled on non-OS
drives, however.
This means that if you install R on a non-OS drive, you
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