Hi, Pinging.
On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 7:17 PM Felipe Contreras <felipe.contre...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 4:08 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 16 March 2023 at 13:39, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > | R should do the same: it should install packages to somewhere inside > > | ~/.local by default. > > rather than asking a few million R users to adjust from past > > practice. > > Why would they have to adjust anything? > > Just expand %U to both: > > paste(c( > file.path(home, ".local", "lib", "r", x.y), > file.path(home, "R", paste0(R.version$platform, "-library"), x.y) > ), collapse = ":") > > Then R would install packages to the new location in new installations > by default, but still use packages from the old location if present. This would work, would it not? > Moreover, this location is going to change the next time the minor > version is bumped anyway. Or just change it for the next version of R. Cheers. -- Felipe Contreras ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
