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Romain
Romain

Reputation: 859

Make R project Automatically open Specific Scripts

I am working in team, we mainly use R, I am quite used to use R project in Rstudio, which I like because when I open them I have all my scripts and everything at the right place. However when another member of the team opens one of my project it loads the values and data but does not open the R script (one can see that by physically clicking on the project through the windows explorer rather than using the menu at the top right in R). I guess something can be done in the .Rprofile but I did not find any command to open physically a script, I tried 

file.edit("./Main.R")

but it did not open anything. It just got me the message :

Error: could not find function "file.edit"

As always, Thanks for your help !

**EDIT I tried to use 

file.show
file.edit 
shell.exec(file.path(getwd()), "Main.R"))

in the .Rprofile. Nothing worked.

Romain

Upvotes: 9

Views: 2342

Answers (2)

rowang
rowang

Reputation: 161

You can use the following code in the .Rprofile file.

setHook("rstudio.sessionInit", function(newSession) {
  if (newSession)
    rstudioapi::navigateToFile('<file name>', line = -1L, column = -1L)
}, action = "append")

The rstudioapi library has the function navigateToFile to open a file in Rstudio. The problem is that the code in the .Rprofile runs before Rstudio initialization. To deal with this problem you can use the setHook function (from base package) to make the code execute after the Rstudio initialization.

Upvotes: 6

Sda030
Sda030

Reputation: 21

file.edit requires the utils package

library(utils)
file.edit("Master.R")

However, if it opens in Notepad rather than RStudio you have the same problem as me. I've tried editing the editor= in all possible places: .RProfile, RProfile, RProfile.sites, with and without .First() function statements and calls. However, RStudio does not load the .R file in RStudio if told to. It may be linked to the .RData file being loaded after .RProfile. Bug? Or at least a feature RStudio should incorporate in their RProject file specification.

Upvotes: 1

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