From henr|k@bengt@@on @end|ng |rom gm@||@com  Thu Sep 10 03:50:10 2020
From: henr|k@bengt@@on @end|ng |rom gm@||@com (Henrik Bengtsson)
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 18:50:10 -0700
Subject: [Rd] Rgui never processes ~/.Renviron
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I've "moved" this to
https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17919 to make sure
it's tracked.  /Henrik

On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 7:25 AM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
>
> 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
>
> --
> https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org



[Rd] Rgui never processes ~/.Renviron
Henrik Bengtsson