Message-ID: <4836D81F.3090003@facstaff.wisc.edu>
Date: 2008-05-23T14:43:43Z
From: Rick Voland
Subject: feature request for M$-Windows install (PR#11499)
In-Reply-To: <4836464A.4010302@stats.uwo.ca>
Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> 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
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Rick Voland
rpvoland at facstaff.wisc.edu