Installed packages may not be modified because they are permitted to be installed with read-only access. You have no option to proceed in this direction.
Configuration files are normally stored in the user's working directory. Dotfiles are a common convention in *nix operating systems, but in Windows the conventions are a bit different. The most general solution is to allow the user to specify an R option in .Rprofile [1], but you can setup defaults depending on the user's OS to back that up in case they don't actually take the steps to do that. [1] https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/base/html/options.html On October 22, 2023 9:52:50 AM PDT, "Keshav, Krishna" <kkes...@ufl.edu> wrote: >Hi, > >My package is failing on linux based systems because of an attempt to write in >a location of package. One of the core features that we would like user to >have is to modify the values in the config file, for which package has a >function for user to provide modified config. In future, they should be able >to provide individual parameters for the config for which also we will be >writing to config in package directory /inst/ so that it can later be fetched. >I understand that policy doesn’t allow writing to home directory. Is there a >workaround for this? Or what could be other potential solutions to explore. > >Snippet – >https://github.com/GarrettLab/CroplandConnectivity/blob/923a4a0ca4a0ce8376068ee80986df228ea21d80/geohabnet/R/params.R#L57 > >Error – > ── Failure ('test-parameters.R:38:3'): Test 6: Test to set new > parameters.yaml ── > Expected `set_parameters(new_param_file)` to run without any conditions. > ℹ Actually got a <simpleWarning> with text: > cannot create file > '/home/hornik/tmp/R.check/r-release-gcc/Work/build/Packages/geohabnet/parameters.yaml', > reason 'Read-only file system' > > >Best Regards, >Krishna Keshav > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
