Recognize '#!/usr/bin/env Rscript' header as R script

RStudio IDE
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Minor request, but it would be nice if the RStudio IDE could automatically recognize files that begin with

#!/usr/bin/env Rscript

as R script files. These are typically executable scripts without extensions, and RStudio opens them as plain text files. Obviously, you can manually change this after opening, but I end up doing this several times a day.

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We're currently tracking this here: https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/issues/5643

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Ah ha -- excellent. Sorry, I tried searching, but didn't come across that issue on GitHub. Thank you for pointing it out!

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