How to clone or copy a project for use in RStudio from a local drive to another local drive (Linux)

I've recently added an additional, larger internal drive to a PC running Ubuntu Linux 22.04.4. I want to move an existing R project from another local drive to this new larger drive. I've copied all content from the old drive to the new drive, and have verified that R projects copied include everything from the old drive. The partitions on the new and old drives have different names but the same read/write/execute permissions. They are of course different physical devices.

When I try to open projects in RStudio that have been copied to the new drive, I get system 5 error input/output error messages. I can run R from the CLI in the root directories of these projects, and all content appears to be ok.

What should I look to change in the copied projects for use in RStudio?

This issue does make me wonder about what would happen if I needed to restore existing projects from a back up to a new drive.

I suppose that one way to do this is to copy all non-project-related files into a new directory on the new drive, and then create a new project in that directory. This works, although doing it over and over again for 25 or so existing projects seems less convenient than it should be. I also had VS Code projects that I copied from the old drive to the new drive, and they launch and work w/o probs.

I'm of the impression that the industry standard for making projects reproducible (with others, and your future self) is providing a version control backend (which brings many other benefits also). Rstudio has good git integration ( I havent tried it with any other vcs) .

I can delete my harddrive, and if I have access to my repo on a well trusted system (Github or Azure ... etc. ) I can restore a project to whereever I want.

Just caution that its best to back up only code and small files (such as a project file), less so data, though extensions like git-lfs do exist to help with that also.

Thanks, @nirgrahamuk. That's good advice. I've chosen to keep some projects local because of the nature of the data, with incremental and total local backups. I suppose I could clone to a private GitHub repo, but I'm not sure that the data owners would be comfortable with it. I use some private repos for some course content.

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