Recent files history R

Question

How can one find an extensive list of R files that were opened in RStudio? Sort of like the list under File -> Recent Files but much longer?

Tempa

Removed the r tag, since it is specific to Rstudio. – Clump

Answer 1

I do not believe so. Per this question, it appears that the file history is stored locally at C:\Users\%USER%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\monitored\lists\file_mru. (Assuming Windows) When I looked at this file on my local machine, it simply matched the recent files I was seeing in RStudio. When I deleted a couple lines from the file_mru file, they also disappeared from RStudio.

However, given that they are stored in a text file, one could probably write some code to grab and store those filenames permanently, should you choose. Just doesn't appear that RStudio does that.

Maui

Thanks @Sam. Any idea for how to do it on the MacBook? – Tempa

I'm sorry, but I don't. I only have access to a Windows machine, so I'm afraid I don't know that answer. – Maui

Under Linux it's at ~/.local/share/rstudio/monitored/lists/file_mru, maybe that also help for Mac, as an originally *nix based system? – Lisettelisha