Feature Request: Open multiple files at once

tho.mi · November 8, 2018, 5:09pm

It would be really helpful if it were possible to open several files at once. Not sure why it still doesn't work. Is there a reason for that?

jcblum · November 9, 2018, 6:32am

Hi @tho.mi! Welcome!

Do you mean open multiple files using the File > Open… menu? If you’d like to submit this as a feature request, here's your starting point:
RStudio IDE Guide: Writing Good Feature Requests

A similar (but not identical) request already exists:

github.com/rstudio/rstudio

Feature Request: Open Directory

opened 04:15PM - 01 Aug 18 UTC

closed 08:18PM - 19 Feb 21 UTC

hack-r

enhancement files pane stale

### System details RStudio Edition : Desktop RStudio Version : All OS Version : All R Version : All ### Feature Request It would be very useful to be able to open all files (and/or all by extension, e.g. R) in a directory. I use this feature in GitHub's Atom programming text editor often. It not only saves time when opening many files, it can also be used for powerful time savings with Find in Files. I think that usefulness stands on its own, but it's an even bigger time saver if you consider many common issues that lead to .Rproj projects not properly reopening .R files in RStudio.

Maybe in the meantime, the workaround suggested there would help?

You can accomplish something similar programmatically with e.g.
files <- list.files("R", full.names = TRUE)
file.edit(files)
and so in theory could build an RStudio Addin to handle this.

tho.mi · November 10, 2018, 7:39am

Thanks for the two links, I'll have a look!