From zbbjornson at gmail.com  Fri Dec  8 18:14:20 2017
From: zbbjornson at gmail.com (Zach Bjornson)
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 09:14:20 -0800
Subject: [Rd] Bug: Issues on Windows with SFN disabled
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Thanks for fixing this!

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:


This is actually a pretty big peeve of mine. "Program Files" is where
programs are *supposed* to reside on Windows.

>> Related (but moderately more advanced), why does R still install
"everything"
>> under one (versioned) directory so that uninformed users on upgrade
"miss"
>> all previously installed packages?


Will this work for native (C/C++) packages? I thought they need to have
matching ABIs with the R executable.

Zach

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[Rd] Bug: Issues on Windows with SFN disabled
Zach Bjornson