[Gretl-users] Windows installation directories

[jean ries]

Allin,

You could have a look at how this problem is solved in R. They are
using Innno Setup too. Here are two references:

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#What-are-HOME-and-working-directories_003f

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Installing-R-under-Windows

Their solution adresses the points made by Peter and James: It is
possible to install R on a machine without having full permissions.
And you can run R without any problem from an USB stick.

Hope this helps,

Jean

On 8/20/06, Allin Cottrell <cottrell at wfu.edu> wrote:
> Responding to comments made by Sven a while ago, I'm thinking of
> changing the default installation directories for gretl 1.6.0 on
> Windows.  The current default of "c:\userdata\gretl" makes sense
> at Wake Forest University but probably seems odd to most people.
>
> For the program itself, "c:\Program Files" (or equivalent) seems
> the obvious choice.  But what about the "user" directory?  Where
> should that go?  Perhaps, in the same tree that Word and Excel
> use for saving user files by default, but what is that?  (Sorry,
> I boot Windows very seldom and I don't know these things.)
>
> [In case anyone suggests using the "HOME" environment variable,
> let me pre-emptively state that that is not a Windows-ish thing,
> and it's not possible to access it using the Inno Setup
> installer with any degree of ease.]
>
> Allin Cottrell
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