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philiporlando
Asked: 2018-06-14 11:59:30 +0800 CST

Unable to open .Rproj with RStudio from terminal or ranger

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I am trying to open an .Rproj file with RStudio from the terminal, or preferably with ranger. The default file opener in ranger, rifle, produces the following error when opening any .Rproj file:

E303: Unable to open swap file for "/path/to/file.Rproj" 13L, 205C

I've found limited resources opening an .Rproj file from terminal, but have tried the following:

open -a /path/to/file.Rproj

This returns:

Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console
command-line r bash rstudio

1 Answers

  1. There is a way to open files from terminal using it's assigned default "open with" sofware. In the console and asuming you are in the same place where your file lives, you must try:

    xdg-open file.extension

    I have opened several different kinds of files with "xdg-open", should be the same with *.Rproj.

    Good luck!

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