Overview

The rstudioapi package is designed to make it easy to conditionally access the RStudio API from CRAN packages, avoiding any potential problems with R CMD check. This package contains a handful of useful wrapper functions to access the API.

Reference

Click here to browse the rstudioapi package reference.

Example uses

# rstudioapi is designed to never be attached to your search path.
# Always prefix function calls with rstudioapi::

# Returns T/F
rstudioapi::isAvailable()
# Returns error if not available
rstudioapi::verifyAvailable()

# Optional argument allows you to specify version requirement
rstudioapi::isAvailable("0.99")
rstudioapi::verifyAvailable("0.99")

# Call an rstudio function
rstudioapi::callFun("viewer", "http://localhost:8080")

# This will raise an error if rstudio is not running, or the function
# is not found. To run a different function if it's not available,
# use exists
if (rstudioapi::hasFun("viewer")) {
  rstudioapi::callFun("viewer", "http://localhost:8080")
} else {
  browseURL("http://localhost:8080")
}

# You can use find to get the function. Throws an error if the function
# does not exist.
rstudioapi::findFun("viewer")

# You can also check version in exists and find
rstudioapi::findFun("viewer", 0.99)
rstudioapi::hasFun("viewer", 0.99)

Installation

  • Install the development version with devtools::install_github("rstudio/rstudioapi").