Hello RStudio / posit community,
I encountered a similar error, which was already described here.
Due to the fact that I could not re-open the topic and that no solution was suggested, I just created this new topic and hope to find a solution.
I also do not want to use the /home directory for the users and tried to change this in the settings. Thus, each user should end up in a specific folder such as /new_home/${USER} , which would be directly achievable if the /etc/rstudio/rsession.conf expands the variable ${USER}.
Therefore, I considered the following steps and was partially successful but not completely:
- I changed the rsession.conf (including${USER} does create a folder ‘${USER}’ but no user specific folders):
#> R code
cat /etc/rstudio/rsession.conf
# R Session Configuration File
session-timeout-minutes=0
session-save-action-default=no
session-default-working-dir=/new_home
session-default-new-project-dir=/new_home
- Furthermore, I changed the working directory, which was also mentioned here
cat /usr/lib64/R/etc/Rprofile.site
# https://solutions.posit.co/envs-pkgs/rsw_defaults/
options(repos = c(CRAN = {{ cran_repos | map("to_json") | join(", ") }}))
setwd(file.path("/new_home",Sys.getenv("USER")))
This changes the working directory in the R Runtime, however, session-default-working-dir still points to the other directory.
I suggest that this a reason why I create now the .Rhistory in the /new_home folders instead of the final user specific folders in which it should be created.
Is it planned that the rsession.conf will expand variables in the next release?