On Wed, 13 Dec 2023, McGrath, Justin M wrote:
On Windows, packages will be in "C:\Users\[User Name]\Documents\R\win-library\[R
version]\[Package Name]".
With a 150 byte limit, that leaves 70 bytes for the user name, R version
and package name. That seems more than sufficient. If people are
downloading the source files, that also leaves plenty of space
regardless where they choose to extract the files.
70 bytes ?? My name is 18 characters long and there are plenty of people
with longer names. I also saw practice on Windows systems to append the
name of organization or department.
Also, this restricts the length of package name which is arguably more
important that internal package path names that the user never sees.
That said, that Windows limitation is only for some programs, and the
pertitent question is whether R and any software used by R has this
limitation. I suspect the answer is no, but as all my systems are Linux
I can not check.
Vladimir Dergachev
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