Transferring settings, open projects & files to new installation

[jsvnc]

Hi all, I'm hoping to transfer my RStudio settings, including recent projects and the files they had open, to a new installation on a different machine, and wondering how to do it? I found someone asked essentially the same question in 2018 already but had no response: Transfer default settings and projects to new device

Thanks!

[andresrcs]

RStudio settings are saved on a JSON file called rstudio-prefs.json that you can copy to your new machine, it is located at:

OS	Default Location
Windows	%APPDATA%\RStudio
Unix	~/.config/rstudio

But as far as I know, there are no user-configurable files for recent projects and open files.

[jsvnc]

Fantastic, thanks very much for your response!

I've come across this article which appears to show both where the preferences are stored and the internal state (i.e. open tabs & projects): https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/200534577-Resetting-RStudio-Desktop-s-State

So whilst the preferences are at %APPDATA%\RStudio, internal state is saved in %LOCALAPPDATA%\RStudio

Thanks again!

[jonathan]

You'll also want to be sure to copy the .Rproj.user folder to the new location -- it is located inside each project folder and contains the open files (etc) in that project.