[Rd] Rgui never processes ~/.Renviron

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

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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