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<div><h1>applicationDirectory -- the path to the user's application directory</h1>
<div class="single"><h2>Synopsis</h2>
<ul><li><div class="list"><dl class="element"><dt class="heading">Usage: </dt><dd class="value"><div><tt>applicationDirectory()</tt></div>
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<li><div class="single">Outputs:<ul><li><span><span>a <a href="___String.html">string</a></span>, the path to the user's application directory</span></li>
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<div class="single"><h2>Description</h2>
<div><p>The function <a href="_install__Package.html" title="load and install a package and its documentation ">installPackage</a>, by default, installs packages under the application directory. At program startup, unless the <tt>-q</tt> option is provided on the command line, an entry will be added to the <a href="_path.html" title="list of directories to look in">path</a> so packages can be loaded from there by <a href="_load__Package.html" title="load a package">loadPackage</a> and <a href="_needs__Package.html" title="load a package if not already loaded">needsPackage</a>. Moreover, the <a href="_initialization_spfile.html" title="">initialization file</a>, if found there, will be run.</p>
<p>The function <a href="_application__Directory__Suffix.html" title="suffix that determines the user's application directory">applicationDirectorySuffix</a> determines the value of <tt>applicationDirectory</tt>, and can be modified by the user.</p>
<table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : applicationDirectory()
o1 = /builddir/.Macaulay2/</pre>
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<div class="single"><h2>See also</h2>
<ul><li><span><a href="_application__Directory__Suffix.html" title="suffix that determines the user's application directory">applicationDirectorySuffix</a> -- suffix that determines the user's application directory</span></li>
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<div class="waystouse"><div class="single"><h2>Code</h2>
<pre>../../d/startup.m2.in:241:32-246:16: --source code:
applicationDirectory = () -> (
getenv "HOME" | "/" |
if instance(applicationDirectorySuffix, Function)
then applicationDirectorySuffix()
else applicationDirectorySuffix
);</pre>
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