Rstudio Desktop

Installation

Options

Follow Tools > Global Options

• General: Check whether you want to save and restore .Rdata after and before each session. (No recommended)
• Code: choose you favorite pipe operator: |> or %>% (favor standard pipe |>)
• For other options, pick as you like.

You can tune options for each RStudio project.

Goodies

• Rstudio addins
• Customize keyboad shortcuts
• Code snippets
• Provide helpers when importing novel datasets stored in formats like csv that are not self-documented.

Use projects

Doing so, rstudio

• Automatically sets working directory
• Settles version control options
• Uses renv to manage a consistent collection of packages (or not)

Use

rstudio provides a git panel. This is a very convenient way of versioning and interacting with remote repositories