The goal of rstudioprefswitcher is to provide a programmatic tool for switching RStudio preferences. It’s designed mostly for instructors who want to switch between personal preferences and default RStudio preferences.
This package is a work in progress but is not intended for release to CRAN.
This package is not intended for CRAN, please install with remotes
remotes::install_github("charliejhadley/rstudioprefswitcher")Let’s assume your custom settings are currently set, but to make sure there’s a drammatic change let’s programmatically change the theme to something that looks like the Matrix as follows:
rstudioapi::writeRStudioPreference("editor_theme", "Gob")Now let’s save this combination of settings as “matrix_theme”
library("rstudioprefswitcher")
prefs_save(preferences_name = "matrix_theme")So we can then reapply these settings, let’s change to a “light” theme.
rstudioapi::writeRStudioPreference("editor_theme", "Tomorrow")Now let’s set our preferences back to “matrix_theme”, note that
prefs_set() will reload RStudio to ensure all settings are applied.
prefs_set(preferences_name = "matrix_theme")At present it appears the only way to
reset your preferences
programmatically is to delete the preference file. This can be achieved
with prefs_reset_to_defaults()
prefs_reset_to_defaults()However. RStudio maintains several default preferences from the R Console (R GUI) that contribute to poor code reproducibility, specifically:
- Asking to save .RData on exit
- Restoring .RData at startup
- Always save History
You are strongly encouraged to run prefs_improve_reproducibility()
after prefs_reset_to_defaults() to improve the reproducibility of your
code.
prefs_improve_reproducibility()