Typical user cache directories are:
user_log_dir(
appname = NULL,
appauthor = appname,
version = NULL,
opinion = TRUE,
expand = TRUE,
os = NULL
)is the name of application. If NULL, just the system directory is returned.
(only required and used on Windows) is the name of the appauthor or distributing body for this application. Typically it is the owning company name. This falls back to appname.
is an optional version path element to append to the
path. You might want to use this if you want multiple versions
of your app to be able to run independently. If used, this
would typically be "<major>.<minor>". Only applied when appname
is not NULL.
(logical) can be FALSE to disable the appending of
Logs to the base app data dir for Windows, and log to the
base cache dir for Unix. See discussion below.
If TRUE (the default) will expand the R_LIBS specifiers with their equivalents.
See R_LIBS() for list of all possibly specifiers.
Operating system whose conventions are used to construct the
requested directory. Possible values are "win", "mac", "unix". If NULL
(the default) then the current OS will be used.
Mac OS X: ~/Library/Logs/<AppName>
Unix: ~/.cache/<AppName>/log, or under
\env$XDG_CACHE_HOME if defined
Win XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\<AppAuthor>\<AppName>\Logs
Vista:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\<AppAuthor>\<AppName>\Logs
On Windows the only suggestion in the MSDN docs is that local settings
go in the CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA directory.
This function appends Logs to the CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA
value for Windows and appends log to the user cache dir for Unix.
This can be disabled with the opinion = FALSE option.
user_log_dir()
#> [1] "~/.cache/log"