R devel - Jul 2021 - Feature request: Change default library path on Windows

> 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.

-Steve

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