Rstudio Hidden Gems

#1

There’s a bunch of features not very well known but a game changer in Rstudio. Sometimes these gems don’t appear in documentation or in cheatsheets.

What’s your hidden gem ?

My first addition to the topic:

Add a timestamp to your code chunk just type ts and then Shift + Tab

# Wed Feb 07 10:07:33 2018 ------------------------------

#2

Reflow code with Ctrl + Shift + A

#3

Yeah, a good one. But maybe it’s not so hidden as it appears in Keyboard quick reference (Alt + Shift + K)

But one of my favourites anyway.

Thanks

#4

You can assign a shortcut for “Go To Next Chunk” in RMarkdown documents. I usually assign Ctrl + Down Arrow

#5

The cheatsheet link under the Help tab makes me happy. Its not hidden but even so it took me a while to “discover” it.

#6

ctrl + . to find files or function.

#7

Shift + Ctrl + r to insert a section heading or just a line to break up sections of code. Not a game changer really but saves you typing out a the # es

#8

You can clear the screen by typing:

cat('\f')

on your console.

#9

Ctrl l is even shorter for that (and l as in löschen is easy to remember if you happen to a German)

#10

Or…CTRL+L
= “Control-Limpiar” (clear screen) in Spanish :slight_smile:

#11

Nice! But why can’t they format the date correctly? :smiling_imp:

Feature Request: timestamp in ISO8601-ish format
#12

This would be awesome if there is a shortcut for this one:

Jump cursor to different section headings in Rmarkdown.

Please tell me it exists.

#13

In R Markdown documents, you can use Ctrl + PageUp and Ctrl + PageDown to quickly jump to the previous and next section (including chunks).

You can also pop up the scope tree list using Shift + Alt + J (Ctrl + Shift + Alt + J on macOS).

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