Feature request: Change default library path on Windows
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