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For what it's worth, the Windows installers for other programming language runtimes often install outside of Program Files, so at least there is 'prior art' to motivate having R install directly into the root of the home drive: - ActiveState Perl installs directly C:/Perl; - Python installs (when installing for all users) into C:/Python$VERSION; - The Ruby installers at

Hello, R appears to assume that Windows drives have short file names (SFN, 8.3) enabled; for example, that "C:/Program Files/..." is addressable as "C:/Progra~1/...". Newer versions of Windows have SFN disabled on non-OS drives, however. This means that if you install R on a non-OS drive, you - can't start R.exe from the command line. - consequently, anything that