This is a maintenance release of RStudio containing small bugfixes and functionality enhancements.
shinytest package (#5677, #5703)_R_CHECK_LENGTH_1_CONDITION_ (#5268, #5363)memory.limit() result with R >= 3.6.0 (#4986)DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES after launch on macOS to prevent spurious library load errors (#5313)_R_CHECK_LENGTH_1_LOGIC2_ (#5268, #5363).Rprofile (#4441).Rprofile could hang RStudio (#4443)libxkbcommon package on Linux (#4610)rprojroot package (#4628)This is a maintenance release of RStudio which contains fixes for the following issues:
Windows terminal supports multiple terminal shell types
Default Windows terminal shell type set in new Global Options/Terminal preferences pane
]f and [f to open adjacent files on the file systemwww-frame-origin option for specifying framing permissionsauth-required-user-group is set</div><div>)New keyboard shortcuts to expand/contract current selection
Enhanced display of sections in R scope navigator
Added document outline display to R and C++ documents
New Close All Except Current command
Rename variable in scope (Cmd+Shift+Alt+M)
More context-sensitive highlighting of R keywords
Option to enable highlighting of R function calls
F2 now navigates into files (e.g. within calls to source)
Yank before/after (Ctrl+K, Ctrl+U) now use system clipboard on RStudio Desktop
Yank after cursor (Ctrl+K) no longer eats end of line character
Added option controlling ‘surround on text insertion’ behavior
RStudio Addins
New Session command (create new R session with same project or working directory)
Open project in a new window from the projects recently used menu
New Shiny App command for quick creation of Shiny applications
Data Viewer: Filter factor columns by text or level
Raise limit on shinyapps uploads to 1GB from 100MB
‘Edit -> Replace and Find’ opens Find toolbar if not already open (e.g. with Cmd+Shift+J)
Improve performance of console for large and/or rapidly updating output
Roxygen quick reference available from the Help menu
Links to RStudio cheat sheets available on the Help menu
Scan for Rtools in both HKCU and HKLM (for non-Admin installs of Rtools)
Run app command and shortcut now works for running single file Shiny applications
Move running Shiny apps between IDE panes and windows without restarting the app
Add support for single-file, standalone Shiny applications
Parse TeX magic comments that start with “%%” (ESS compatibility).
Change default Rpres template to specify autosize: true
Automatically create ~/.ssh directory if necessary on Windows
Added Makefile mode (used for Makefile, Makevars)
Always use LF for line endings in Unix Makefiles in R packages
Return environment variables as completions within Sys.getenv(), Sys.setenv() calls
Add ‘R Scripts’ preset filter to Find in Files dialog
OS X: Support for executing commands via AppleScript via ‘cmd’ verb
OS X: Enable WebKit WebGL by default
OS X: Enable WebKit DeveloperExtras by default
OS X: Enable creation of directories in folder picker dialog
Windows: Update to SumatraPDF 3.1.1
Added ability to zoom panes (e.g. Ctrl+Shift+1 to zoom source pane)
Add Console on Left/Right commands for quick relocation of Console
Add product and version metadata to Windows installer
Add askForPassword function to rstudioapi
Improved detection of Msysgit installation location on Windows
Improvements in file/function navigation:
Multiple cursors:
Create a new cursor above / below the current cursor with CTRL + ALT + {up / down}
Move the active cursor up / down with CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + {up / down}
Create multiple cursors by pressing CTRL + ALT and clicking + dragging the mouse
Improved Vim mode:
Configurable snippets for fast insertion of common blocks of code
Editor tabs in the source pane can now be rearranged
Automatically save files prior to sourcing (controlled by option)
Support for multiple cursors via Ctrl+Alt+Up/Down
Alt+Enter to run code while retaining cursor position
Ctrl+Shift+E to select within matching parens / braces
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+E to expand selection to matching paren / brace
Comment/uncomment respects indent level when appropriate
New Reformat Code command for R scripts
Shift+Enter now searches backwards in Find/Replace
Find All option added in Find/Replace
Ctrl+E now focuses the editor after finding from selection
New option to control comment continuation on insertion of new lines
Reflow text (comment) for markdown and plain text modes
Updated to Ace (source editor component) v1.1.8
Syntax highlighting for GraphViz and mermaid.js diagrams.
Diagram previews using the DiagrammeR package (requires recent version from GitHub).
Syntax highlighting modes for many new languages including Clojure, CoffeeScript, C#, Graphviz, Go, Groovy, Haskell, Java, Julia, Lisp, Lua, Matlab, Perl, Ruby, Rust, Scala, and Stan.
Keyword and text based code completion for many languages including JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Python, and SQL.
A wide variety of new editor themes (color schemes) are now available.
Increase file size limit to 5MB (was previously 2MB)
Improvements to New Package:
Support for roxygen2 ‘vignette’ roclet
Insert Roxygen Skeleton command (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+R)
Default to roxygenize for Build and Reload
Improved checking for supported protocol with packrat package
Escape backslashes in library names when loading packages
Call to library after Build and Reload respects –library argument
Validate that required versions are available for prompted installs
Set R_BROWSER=false and R_PDFVIEWER=false (as CRAN does) for R CMD check
browser() and debug()str() for displaying object valuesNext generation of R Markdown based on pandoc
Option to preview R Markdown HTML in Viewer Pane
Enhancements to HTML previewing for presentation authoring
Previewing for MS Word and PDF output
Added Run Previous Chunks command (Ctrl+Alt+P)
Keyboard shortcut for Knit is now Ctrl+Shift+K
This release includes a variety of tools to support R package development, including:
There are also a number of features aimed at making it easier to write R documentation:
There is also integration with the devtools package, including:
devtools::load_alldevtools::dev_modedevtools::dev_mode when reloading and restarting R sessionsThis release includes many new features to support seamless R and C++ integration using Rcpp, including:
Support for Rcpp Attributes:
Rcpp::sourceCppRcpp::compileAttributes for package buildsNew project option to create “Package w/Rcpp”
Automatic unloading of Windows dynamic libraries before package builds
Editor support for Rcpp code chunks in R Markdown
Find and Replace improvements:
Automatic indentation improvements:
Vim editing mode
Tomorrow suite of editor themes
Surround selected text with quote/brace/paren/etc. on key input
Jump to matching brace/param (Ctrl+P)
New options: show whitespace, show indent guides, non-blinking cursor
Advance to next line after executing a selection from the editor
Significantly improved file-type detection (automatically open all files detected as text)
Plot zoom window improvements:
Use bg=transparent option for plots to RStudio device
Always use native R png device with cairo bitmapType on Linux
Default plot export dialogs to current size of plots pane
Option to use cairo_pdf for PDF plot export on platforms where it is available
Set useDingbats = FALSE for PDF plot export (for compatibility with broader set of PDF viewers)
Compatibility with R Graphics Engine version 10 (R-devel)
Each project has its own RStudio context:
All R code within a project is indexed for quick navigation by filename or function
Projects can be bound to version control repositories (Git or Subversion)
File-association for .Rproj files to open projects from the shell
Open multiple instances of RStudio with different projects concurrently
Go To Function Definition:
Back and Forward commands for quickly traversing navigation contexts (including tab switches)
Git/SVN pane:
Review changes window:
History window:
Source editor improvements:
Manipulate package:
Shell command:
Use native Ubuntu monospace and proportional fonts on newer Ubuntu systems (11.10+)
Support for \1..\99 and \n, \r, \t in regex search & replace
Run code:
Brace, paren, and quote matching
Improved cursor placement after newlines
Support for regex find and replace
Optional syntax highlighting for console input
Press F1 for help on current selection
Function navigation / jump to function
Column and line number display
Manually set/switch document type
New themes: Solarized and Solarized Dark
Improved image export:
Improved PDF export:
Remove individual plots from history
Resizable plot zoom window
New commands:
New options:
Shortcut keys for inserting into console or source
New options:
Improved R discovery:
Default to uncompressed save.image output if the administrator or user hasn’t specified their own options (improved suspend/resume performance)
Ensure all running sessions are automatically updated during server version upgrade
Added verify-installation command to rstudio-server utility for easily capturing configuration and startup related errors
Don’t prevent opening of unknown file types in the editor
Fixed sporadic missing underscores (and other bottom clipping of text) in console
Make sure console history is never displayed offscreen
Page Up and Page Down now work properly in the console
Substantially improved console performance for both rapid output and large quantities of output
Install successfully on Windows with special characters in home directory name
make install more tolerant of configurations where it can’t write into /usr/share
Eliminate spurious stderr output in forked children of multicore package
Ensure that file modified times always update in the files pane after a save
Always default to installing packages into first writeable path of .libPaths()
Ensure that LaTeX log files are always preserved after compilePdf
Fix conflicts with zap function from epicalc package
Eliminate shortcut key conflicts with Ubuntu desktop workspace switching shortcuts
Always prompt when attempting to save files of the same name
Maximized main window now properly restored when reopening RStudio
PAM authorization works correctly even if account has password expiration warning
Correct display of manipulate panel when Plots pane is on the left
We’ve added some new features & options to the source editor. We’ve also received lots of feedback on more advanced capabilities users want in the editor and we will definitely address this in upcoming releases. New stuff in the editor includes:
The docs on source code editing options include more details.
One of the most frequently requested features we’ve have is the ability to put the Console and Source views side-by-side. This configuration (and others) are now possible. New appearance and layout options include:
For more details see the docs on appearance and layout options.
This release includes a package called manipulate that can be use to create interactive plots within RStudio. Manipulate is very flexible and includes the following capabilities:
More details as well as screenshots with examples can be found in the manipulate documentation.
The first beta of RStudio was compatible with the binary version of R distributed from CRAN. The current release works with any version of R, including:
The docs on using different versions of R describe how RStudio determines which R to run against on each platform.
In this release we’ve significantly improved handling of non-ASCII characters, this includes:
See the character encoding documentation for more details.
We’ve added a number of new features to make it easier to switch between working contexts located in different directories. These include:
The docs on working directories and workspaces go into more depth on these features.
New keyboard shortcuts:
Add “return” to list of symbols syntax highlighted as a keyword
Improved support for openSUSE (still requires install from source):
Made it more straightforward to install from source: