feature request for M$-Windows install (PR#11499)

After some offline followups, I'm pretty sure the issue here is with the 
"Start in" directory that the installer puts in the shortcut. 
Unfortunately, as far as I can determine, there is no way to tell 
Windows to set the working directory to the user's personal directory 
(My Documents, typically).  The closest we could get is %USERPROFILE%, 
which is the parent of My Documents.  (My Documents is not always named 
that, so %USERPROFILE%\My Documents is not safe.)

We currently set the shortcut to the My Documents directory of the 
person who performs the install, so the shortcut that gets created will 
only work for them.

I'd be interested in hearing suggestions for what to do here.  We could 
go back to setting it to RHOME/bin, and then have the startup code cd to 
My Documents, but that removes flexibility for people who were actually 
making use of that entry.

Duncan Murdoch

I tried two options:  %USERPROFILE% and %USERNAME%

Just as reminder, here is where it currently points (identical for all 
users).

Start in:   "C:\Documents and Settings\voland.CAREDS\My Documents"




Start in:   "C:\Documents and Settings\%USERPROFILE%\My Documents"

on this system points to our H: network (home drive)

I still need to have the user try to start R with this configuration.



Start in:   "C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\My Documents"

on this system points to

"C:\Documents and Settings\voland\My Documents"
(logged in as me)

and the user still gets the error message when trying to start R (logged 
in as the user)




I would be content with some option in a custom install.  I do not need 
to allow different configurations for each user.  I prefer that the user 
be without install permissions most of the time.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Rick Voland
rpvoland at facstaff.wisc.edu

Rick Voland
rpvoland at facstaff.wisc.edu