Re: [Rd] Default location where packages are stored under Windows

2015-09-05 Thread Tom Wenseleers
that the default directory is not writable... cheers, Tom From: Jeroen Ooms [jeroeno...@gmail.com] Sent: 05 September 2015 14:45 To: Tom Wenseleers Cc: r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] Default location where packages are stored under Windows On Sat

Re: [Rd] Default location where packages are stored under Windows

2015-09-05 Thread Jeroen Ooms
On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Tom Wenseleers wrote: > I was just wondering if the default directory to store packages on Windows > platforms could therefore not better be made the personal library folder, > Users/Username/Documents/R/win-library/3.XX/ I think this is already the case? The fi

[Rd] Default location where packages are stored under Windows

2015-09-05 Thread Tom Wenseleers
With a default installation of R on Windows platforms, packages are stored under Program Files/R/R-3.X.X/library. This often causes permission problems, as this directory is always read only by default, requiring the user to either change permissions for that directory or to change the directory