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Alex A.
Alex A.

Reputation: 2736

Renaming files in RStudio that have been sourced other places

I have a few R files that contain functions imported and used by several other R files. I import these functions with the source function. Naturally, the scope of a particular file might change over time, and recently I wanted to rename a file I had already sourced in many other places.

I'm using RStudio, and I have been unable to find a way to do this except for either manually updating each dependent file, or creating some external code to scan through the files.

Is there no way to do consistent renaming in RStudio? Alternatively, am I doing something wrong by using source to add functions?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2503

Answers (1)

CJB
CJB

Reputation: 1809

You may or may not find this satisfactory. Create a parent script with the old name that sources the script with the new name.

Extending this, you could just create a general preamble script, called something like "preamble.R", that sources all general utility scripts you have. Such an approach is common (I believe) with TeX. Then you only have one place to update file names.

Upvotes: 1

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