Infinite loop

[farshid-vahid]

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|   IMPORTANT.
|       The path 'C:/Users/farshid/Dropbox/R_groundhog/groundhog_library/' 
|       seems to be a Dropbox folder. Groundhog will be slower and more 
|       likely to produce occasional errors if the library is on Dropbox; 
|       consider using a different path. If you want to set it to  
|       'C:/Users/farshid/Dropbox/R_groundhog/groundhog_library/' anyway, 
|       type 'anyway', else type 'cancel' 
|   >cancel
OK. Request cancelled.

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|   IMPORTANT.
|       The path 'C:/Users/farshid/Dropbox/R_groundhog/groundhog_library/' 
|       seems to be a Dropbox folder. Groundhog will be slower and more 
|       likely to produce occasional errors if the library is on Dropbox; 
|       consider using a different path. If you want to set it to  
|       'C:/Users/farshid/Dropbox/R_groundhog/groundhog_library/' anyway, 
|       type 'anyway', else type 'cancel' 
|   >

I typed cancel many many times, but, even though it says "OK. Request cancelled", the loop repeats. I had to close down R. I am using R 4.3.1

[urisohn]

I was not able to reproduce this. In R 4.3.1 in Windows. When I type 'cancel' it stopped without a loop. I even created the folder in Dropbox and still it would not produce a loop.

From the path I assume you are also using Windows so a bit puzzling.

1. Are you using groundhog 3.1.0?
2. Have you used groundhog before and this is a new bug for you, or is this your first time using it?
3. Is there any other code you ran before that?
4. If you run get.groundhog.folder(), what do you get?

If you are in the loop again, you can restart the R sessino within R to get out of there, without closing it down. SHFT-CTRL-F10

[farshid-vahid]

Thanks Uri. Yes, I am using Windows.

1. Yes, I was using groundhog 3.1.0
2. That was the first time using it
3. No, I just read about groundhog, and installed groundhog and ran this script:

   library(groundhog)
   today <- "2023-08-08"
   groundhog.library(xts,today) 

   Anyway, I found out that my environment variable R_USER was set to a dropbox folder, so I changed that, and then opened R and everything is fine. Now, when I run get.groundhog.folder() I get my "R_USER path/R_groundhog/groundhog_library/".