Substitute user home variables in library paths?

Hi all,

I have a plugin that adds libraries to my project modules based on our Ivy dependencies. All these libraries come from the Ivy cache which is always under the user home. I'd like to generate these paths such that they're always relative to the user home directory - is there an OpenAPI call for this? If I manually substitute $USER_HOME in the library path will the VirtualFileManager be able to resolve it correctly?

Thanks,
Colin