Path to user log directory — user_log

Typical user cache directories are:

Usage

user_log_dir(
  appname = NULL,
  appauthor = appname,
  version = NULL,
  opinion = TRUE,
  expand = TRUE,
  os = NULL
)

Arguments

appname: is the name of application. If NULL, just the system directory is returned.
appauthor: (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.
version: 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.
opinion: (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.
expand: If TRUE (the default) will expand the R_LIBS specifiers with their equivalents. See R_LIBS() for list of all possibly specifiers.
os: 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.

Details

Mac OS X: ~/Library/Logs/<AppName>
Unix: ~/.cache/<AppName>/log, or under $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.

Opinion

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.

Examples

user_log_dir()
#> [1] "~/.cache/log"