From edd at debian.org  Wed Feb  1 20:41:30 2012
From: edd at debian.org (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 13:41:30 -0600
Subject: [Rd] location of check.Renviron on Windows
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On 1 February 2012 at 20:23, Uwe Ligges wrote:
| 
| 
| On 01.02.2012 20:10, Robert M. Flight wrote:
| > Doing package development on a Windows 7 machine, and I want to tell R
| > check not to worry about the "suggested" packages.
| >
| > I realize this can be done using the ~/.R/check.Renviron file, but
| > what directory corresponds to "~"? Is that supposed to be the user
| > directory? Or is it some other directory?
| >
| > I have this _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_=false (have also tried FALSE) in
| > C:\Users\username\.R
| 
| 
| ~ is proably "c:/Users/%USERNAME%/My Documents" (cannot remember exactly 
| - on XP right now).

I always define HOME on Windows.  

Stupid that this is still a required manual step in this day and age, but
then it is on Windows where many things "different".

Dirk
 
| Uwe Ligges
| 
| 
| 
| 
| >
| > I have also tried putting the file in C:\Users\username
| >
| > Using r58183
| >
| > Thanks,
| >
| > -Robert
| >
| > Robert M. Flight, Ph.D.
| > University of Louisville Bioinformatics Laboratory
| > University of Louisville
| > Louisville, KY
| >
| > PH 502-852-1809 (HSC)
| > PH 502-852-0467 (Belknap)
| > EM robert.flight at louisville.edu
| > EM rflight79 at gmail.com
| > robertmflight.blogspot.com
| > bioinformatics.louisville.edu/lab
| >
| > The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
| > discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..." -
| > Isaac Asimov
| >
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[Rd] location of check.Renviron on Windows
Dirk Eddelbuettel