Make R project Automatically open Specific Scripts

Question

I am working in team, we mainly use R, I am quite used to use R project in Rstudio, which I like because when I open them I have all my scripts and everything at the right place. However when another member of the team opens one of my project it loads the values and data but does not open the R script (one can see that by physically clicking on the project through the windows explorer rather than using the menu at the top right in R). I guess something can be done in the .Rprofile but I did not find any command to open physically a script, I tried

file.edit("./Main.R") 

but it did not open anything. It just got me the message :

Error: could not find function "file.edit"

As always, Thanks for your help !

**EDIT I tried to use

file.show
file.edit 
shell.exec(file.path(getwd()), "Main.R")) 

in the .Rprofile. Nothing worked.

Romain

Answer 1

You can use the following code in the .Rprofile file.

setHook("rstudio.sessionInit", function(newSession) {
  if (newSession)
    rstudioapi::navigateToFile('<file name>', line = -1L, column = -1L)
}, action = "append")

The rstudioapi library has the function navigateToFile to open a file in Rstudio. The problem is that the code in the .Rprofile runs before Rstudio initialization. To deal with this problem you can use the setHook function (from base package) to make the code execute after the Rstudio initialization.