settings

Rstudio settings I strongly suggest for reproducibility:

• Tools - Global Options - General
  • OFF: Restore .Rdata into workspace at startup
    
  • Save workspace to .RData on exit: NEVER

For professionals: Use save and load to restore the results of long computations, see saveload.

Settings I use for compatibility and ease of use:

• Tools - Global Options - Code - Editing
  • ON: Use native pipe operator
  • OFF: Auto-indent code after paste - if you have a custom indenting scheme
• Tools - Global Options - Code - Display
  • ON: Show margin (Margin column: 80) - avoid horizontal scrolling!
  • ON: Highlight R function calls
• Tools - Global Options - Code - Saving
  • Line ending conversion: Windows (CR/LF) - compatible across OS platforms
  • Default Text Encoding: UTF-8
• Tools - Global Options - Appearance
  • Editor font size: 10
  • Editor theme: Cobalt
• Tools - Global Options - Sweave
  • Weave Rnw files using: knitr - if you work with Rnw files
• Tools - Global Options - Spelling
  • OFF: Use real time spell-checking
• Tools - Modify Keyboard Shortcuts
  • To set the following and more keyboard shortcuts, see rskey::setKeyboardBindings()
  • Remove CTRL+Y from the command “paste last yank” (to mean “redo” as in other programs)
  • Set Working Directory to Current Document’s Directory: CTRL + H