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tools::R_user_dir() provides configurable directories for R packages to write persistent information consistent with standard best practices relative to each supported operating systems for applications to store data, config, and cache information respectively. These standard best practices include writing to direc...

...nce this function didn't exist in early versions of `tools`.) Cheers, Carl --- Carl Boettiger http://carlboettiger.info/ On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 12:59?PM Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote: > > Carl, > > I think your statement is false, the whole point of R_user_dir() is for packages to have a well-defined location that is allowed - from CRAN policy: > > "For R version 4.0 or later (hence a version dependency is required or only conditional use is possible), packages may store user-specific data, configuration and cache files in their respective use...

...> Cheers, > > Carl > > --- > Carl Boettiger > http://carlboettiger.info/ > > On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 12:59?PM Simon Urbanek > <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote: > > > > Carl, > > > > I think your statement is false, the whole point of R_user_dir() is for packages to have a well-defined location that is allowed - from CRAN policy: > > > > "For R version 4.0 or later (hence a version dependency is required or only conditional use is possible), packages may store user-specific data, configuration and cache files in their resp...

...ld do the same: it should install packages to somewhere inside | ~/.local by default. Use of ~/.local is a fairly recent convention (relative to the time R has been around, which is now decades) and one which R supports already eg in the (rather useful) portable config directories: > tools::R_user_dir("r2u") [1] "/home/edd/.local/share/R/r2u" > Your best bet really to govern your .libPaths from your Rprofile.site and Renviron.site rather than asking a few million R users to adjust from past practice. Also: personal preferences differ. I think of Linux as multi-ten...

Hi, I see R by default installs packages in ~/R. I know I can change the default directory with R_LIBS_USER, but software shouldn't be polluting the home directory. For example both python and node install packages to ~/.local/lib, ruby to ~/.local/share. They don't install to for example ~/node. R should do the same: it should install packages to somewhere inside ~/.local by default.

...packages to somewhere inside > | ~/.local by default. > > Use of ~/.local is a fairly recent convention (relative to the time R has > been around, which is now decades) and one which R supports already eg in the > (rather useful) portable config directories: > > > tools::R_user_dir("r2u") > [1] "/home/edd/.local/share/R/r2u" > > > > Your best bet really to govern your .libPaths from your Rprofile.site and > Renviron.site rather than asking a few million R users to adjust from past > practice. > > Also: personal preferences...

...-axis for spineplot() and cdplot() has been reversed. * If the R_ALWAYS_INSTALL_TESTS environment variable is set to a true value, R CMD INSTALL behaves as if the --install-tests option is always specified. Thanks to Reinhold Koch for the suggestion. * New function R_user_dir() in package tools suggests paths appropriate for storing R-related user-specific data, configuration and cache files. * capabilities() gains a new logical option Xchk to avoid warnings about X11-related capabilities. * The internal implementation of grid units has chang...

...-axis for spineplot() and cdplot() has been reversed. * If the R_ALWAYS_INSTALL_TESTS environment variable is set to a true value, R CMD INSTALL behaves as if the --install-tests option is always specified. Thanks to Reinhold Koch for the suggestion. * New function R_user_dir() in package tools suggests paths appropriate for storing R-related user-specific data, configuration and cache files. * capabilities() gains a new logical option Xchk to avoid warnings about X11-related capabilities. * The internal implementation of grid units has chang...

...-axis for spineplot() and cdplot() has been reversed. * If the R_ALWAYS_INSTALL_TESTS environment variable is set to a true value, R CMD INSTALL behaves as if the --install-tests option is always specified. Thanks to Reinhold Koch for the suggestion. * New function R_user_dir() in package tools suggests paths appropriate for storing R-related user-specific data, configuration and cache files. * capabilities() gains a new logical option Xchk to avoid warnings about X11-related capabilities. * The internal implementation of grid units has chang...