From edd @end|ng |rom deb|@n@org  Thu Sep  3 16:25:40 2020
From: edd @end|ng |rom deb|@n@org (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 09:25:40 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Rgui never processes ~/.Renviron
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On 2 September 2020 at 23:38, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
| WORKAROUND:
| Setting R_USER or HOME prior to calling Rgui will cause Rgui to
| process ~/.Renviron, e.g.

AFAICR one _always_ had to manually set $HOME on Windows as the convention of
having it comes from the some other OSs and is not native.

In short I don't think this is new. A quick Google search seems to confirm
this with a SuperUser answer from 2013:

https://superuser.com/questions/607105/is-the-home-environment-variable-normally-set-in-windows

Dirk

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[Rd] Rgui never processes ~/.Renviron
Dirk Eddelbuettel