The CRAN Policies [https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html] say:
"- Packages should not write in the users’ home filespace, nor
anywhere else on the file system apart from the R session’s temporary
directory (or during installation in the location pointed to by
TMPDIR: and such usage
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).
>
>
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
Hello,
I wish to offer users of my BrailleR package the ability to save their
preferences, which may change by the workspace.
I've toyed with the ideas:
1.saving a file in the corresponding folder; or,
2. creating an object containing all the settings in the workspace
In eithe
