[R] Antwort: Re: RStudio: Place for Storing Options

[Keith Jewell]

RStudio seems to not pay due regard to the distinction between APPDATA 
and LOCALAPPDATA.

See 
https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/200650543-File-history-and-project-history-stored-in-LOCALAPPDATA

On 23/02/2017 08:00, G.Maubach at weinwolf.de wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> the command
>
> %localappdata%\RStudio-Desktop
>
> gives on my machine
>
> "The command is written wrong or could not be found.".
>
> I found "RStudio-Desktop" under
>
> C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop
>
> There references on created notebooks and presentations are stored in the
> folder "RStudio-Desktop". RStudio config is not documented yet.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Georg
>
>
>
>
> Von:    Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> An:     Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>,
> Kopie:  Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>,
> <G.Maubach at weinwolf.de>, R-help mailing list <r-help at r-project.org>
> Datum:  23.02.2017 08:37
> Betreff:        Re: [R] RStudio: Place for Storing Options
>
>
>
>>>>>> Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>
>>>>>>      on Sat, 11 Feb 2017 08:09:36 -0800 writes:
>
>      > For the record, then, Google listened to my incantation of
>      > "rstudio configuration file" and the second result was:
>
>      >
> https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/200534577-Resetting-RStudio-Desktop-s-State
>
>
>      > RStudio Desktop is also open source, so you can download
>      > the source code and look at the operating-system-specific
>      > bits (for "where") if the above link goes out of date or
>      > disappears.
>
> Thanks a lot, Jeff!
>
> And for the archives:  On reasonable OS's,  the hidden
> directory/folder containing all the info is
>                                    ~/.rstudio-desktop/
> and if "things are broken" the recommendation is to rename that
>     mv ~/.rstudio-desktop  ~/backup-rstudio-desktop
> and (zip and) send along with your e-mail to the experts for diagnosis.
>
>
>      > On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Martin Maechler wrote:
>
>      >>
>      >>>>>>> Ulrik Stervbo <ulrik.stervbo at gmail.com> on Thu, 9
>      >>>>>>> Feb 2017 14:37:57 +0000 writes:
>      >>
>      >> > Hi Georg, > maybe someone here knows, but I think you
>      >> are more likely to get answers to > Rstudio related
>      >> questions with RStudio support: >
>      >> https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us
>      >>
>      >> > Best, > Ulrik
>      >>
>      >> Indeed, thank you, Ulrik.
>      >>
>      >> In this special case, however, I'm quite sure many
>      >> readers of R-help would be interested in the answer; so
>      >> once you receive an answer, please post it (or a link to
>      >> a public URL with it) here on R-help, thank you in
>      >> advance.
>      >>
>      >> We would like to be able to *save*, or sometimes *set* /
>      >> *reset* such options "in a scripted manner", e.g. for
>      >> controlled exam sessions.
>      >>
>      >> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
>      >>
>      >> > On Thu, 9 Feb 2017 at 12:35 <G.Maubach at weinwolf.de>
>      >> wrote:
>      >>
>      >> >> Hi All, >> I would like to make a backup of my RStudio
>      >> IDE options I configure using >> "Tools/Global Options"
>      >> from the menu bar. Searching the >> web did not reveal
>      >> anything.
>      >>
>      >> >> Can you tell me where RStudio IDE does store its
>      >> configuration?
>      >>
>      >> >> Kind regards >> Georg
>      >>
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