Read RStudio Preference

Reads an internal RStudio IDE preference for the current user.

readRStudioPreference(name, default)

Arguments

name	The name of the preference.
default	The default value of the preference, returned if the preference is not found.

Details

RStudio IDE internal preferences include the values displayed in RStudio's Global Options dialog as well as a number of additional settings.

Note

The readRStudioPreference function was added in version 1.3.387 of RStudio.

See also

readPreference, which can be used to read arbitrary user (non-RStudio) preferences set with writePreference.

link{writeRStudioPreference}, which can be used to write internal RStudio IDE preferences.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# Get indentation settings
spaces <- rstudioapi::readRStudioPreference("num_spaces_for_tab", FALSE)
message("Using ", spaces, " per tab.")
}