Read RStudio Preference — readRStudioPreference • rstudioapi

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.")
}