coatless-mac/r-macos-rtools

Notify users that a new .Renviron is being created rather than appended to

joranE opened this issue · 1 comments

I may not have been paying attention while the installer was running and hence missed a notification or comment about this, but it tripped me up for a bit.

Specifically, I somehow missed that my old .Renviron was moved to .Renviron.bck and a new file created. It broke some other stuff that I wasn't expecting and it took me a while to piece together that this is what had happened.

With such an easy to use (and appreciated!) tool like this with everything packaged up into a macOS installer, it might make sense to be more explicit about what's going to happen to the contents of their .Renviron file. Again, it's possible I missed it because I was just clicking through the installer, but that might be the sort of user behavior you're going to see with a tool like this.

Thanks again for building this!

@joranE sorry for the headache.

I'll clean up the verbiage on the README.md and within the main splash screen to emphasize we're replacing the files vs. doing line substitutions.