Configure RStudio Global Options on Install

GraceMeyer · September 24, 2018, 10:35am

Hi,

I find the global options in RStudio incredibly helpful and think that they encourage best practice of script writing, reproducibility and good style.

I have made an installation package for R and RStudio for users in my company. I would like to set some of the Global Options on install such as de-select "Always save history", set, "save workspace to .RData on exit" to never and select "Provide R style diagnostics".

How can I do this? Is there a configuration file?

Kind regards,
Grace Meyer

kevinushey · September 24, 2018, 4:11pm

Unfortunately, it is not yet possible to (easily) programmatically modify RStudio's global / project options. This is something we're considering for a future release of RStudio.

jcblum · September 24, 2018, 7:48pm

I think this would fall under the umbrella of this issue (add a vote! ):

github.com/rstudio/rstudio

Store RStudio user preferences in a user-accessible location

opened 10:10PM - 13 Oct 17 UTC

closed 10:17PM - 22 Jul 19 UTC

jmcphers

enhancement

We've often had requests to store user preferences in a user-accessible location…, using a user-editable file format. The motivation is typically to make it possible to develop a set of personal settings which can be moved from machine to machine, stored on version control, etc. We currently store most user preferences in a private file inside `~/.rstudio/monitored/user-settings` (or the platform equivalent), many of them in a JSON `uiPrefs` blob. Since RStudio's inception, several editing platforms (Sublime and Visual Studio Code) have exposed their preferences as user-editable JSON. We could do the same with a handful of changes: 1. Create a location for RStudio user preferences, probably following the [XDG configuration standard](https://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html) 2. Separate the existing `user-settings` content into internal settings (including machine-specific settings such as `contextIdentifier`) and external settings. 3. Load and save external settings to the .json file instead of the `user-settings` file.