Re: [R-pkg-devel] saving user preferences per workspace

2015-12-13 Thread Gábor Csárdi
Maybe you'll also find the 'rappdirs' package useful. Gabor On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Peter Meissner wrote: > Hey, > > as far as I understand it, it is not ok to do any writing to the filesystem > (except tempfiles) behind the back of the user - never ever (except on > installation). > >

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Run-away R CMD check ?

2015-12-13 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 12 December 2015 at 12:10, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | On 12 December 2015 at 18:57, Uwe Ligges wrote: | | CRAN has different approaches. | | | | Under Windows, I typically have an R process that controls the check | | process and writes out the process id and timestamp and then starts R |

Re: [R-pkg-devel] saving user preferences per workspace

2015-12-13 Thread Peter Meissner
Hey, as far as I understand it, it is not ok to do any writing to the filesystem (except tempfiles) behind the back of the user - never ever (except on installation). But what you can do is implement explicit functions to explicitly save and load options. Furthermore, you can tell the user, that