Check for permissions directory

[elinw]

Because I am running my class on RStudioServer each student has his or her own folder for progress. Because you need root to create those folders, what I have done is to create the folders for each user using a naming scheme.
That all works great, but if a student types in the wrong name (or uses the wrong case etc.) the gzip error shows up.
#60

I wonder if when this returns FALSE
https://github.com/swirldev/swirl/blob/master/R/menu.R#L33
There could be a message saying to try again or that the user may not have permission to create a directory.

[seankross]

I like this idea. Are you specifying their data directories using: swirl_options() ?

[elinw]

No I have a cron job that runs that creates the directories for each user using their usernames. They also have their home folders for normal RStudio work. But i really prefer having a place they don’t have direct access to for storing the results.

Elin

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I like this idea. Are you specifying their data directories using: swirl_options() ?

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