RStudio

RStudio is the premier integrated development environment for the R statistical programming langauge. It is available in open source and commercial editions and runs on the desktop (Mac, Linux, and Windows) or over the web with RStudio Server.

Highlights

• Support for multiple source windows (tear editor tabs off main window).
• Pane zooming for working distraction free within a single mode.
• Editor and IDE keyboard shortcuts can now be customized.
• New Emacs keybindings mode for the source editor.
• Support for registering custom RStudio Addins.
• R Markdown editing improvements including outline view and inline UI for chunk execution.
• Support for parameterized R Markdown reports.
• Various improvements to RStudio Server Pro including multiple concurrent R sessions, use of multiple R versions, and shared projects for collaboration.

Source Editor

• New Emacs editing mode
• Editor and IDE keyboard shortcuts can now be customized
• Support for multiple source windows (tear editor tabs off main window)
• New global and per-project options for line feed conversion
• Snippets: pass parameters to snippet generating R functions
• Split into lines command for multiple cursors (Ctrl+Alt+A)
• New keyboard shortcuts to expand/contract current selection:
• Cmd+Alt+Shift+{Up/Down} OS X
• Ctrl+Shift+{Up/Down} otherwise
• Enhanced display of sections in R scope navigator
• Added document outline display to R and C++ documents
• New Close All Except Current command
• Rename variable in scope (Cmd+Shift+Alt+M)
• More context-sensitive highlighting of R keywords
• Option to enable highlighting of R function calls
• F2 now navigates into files (e.g. within calls to source)
• Yank before/after (Ctrl+K, Ctrl+U) now use system clipboard on RStudio Desktop
• Yank after cursor (Ctrl+K) no longer eats end of line character
• Added option controlling ‘surround on text insertion’ behavior

R Markdown

• New run chunk and options buttons overlaid at the top right of chunks
• New shortcut for run current chunk (Cmd+Shift+Enter)
• Outline view for quick navigation between sections/code chunks
• Ctrl+PageUp and Ctrl+PageDown navigate between sections within Rmd, Rpres
• Enabled comment/uncomment (Cmd+Shift+C) for Markdown documents
• Knit with Parameters command for previewing with varying parameters
• Run All now executes chunks in console (rather than calling e.g. knitr::purl)
• Reorganize toolbar commands/menu for improved discoverability
• Added Run Setup Chunk command
• Updated embedded pandoc to v1.15.2
• Update embedded pdf.js to v1.3
• Support additional options for MS Word (table of contents, keep markdown)

Miscellaneous

• RStudio Add-ins
• Register R functions as addins that can interact with the IDE using the rstudioapi package.
• Accessible from the Addins menu and can be bound to custom keyboard shortcuts
• New Session command (create new R session with same project or working directory)
• Open project in a new window from the projects recently used menu
• New Shiny App command for quick creation of Shiny applications
• Data Viewer: Filter factor columns by text or level
• Raise limit on shinyapps uploads to 1GB from 100MB
• ‘Edit -> Replace and Find’ opens Find toolbar if not already open (e.g. with Cmd+Shift+J)
• Improve performance of console for large and/or rapidly updating output
• Roxygen quick reference available from the Help menu
• Links to RStudio cheat sheets available on the Help menu
• Scan for Rtools in both HKCU and HKLM (for non-Admin installs of Rtools)
• Run app command and shortcut now works for running single file Shiny applications
• Move running Shiny apps between IDE panes and windows without restarting the app
• Add support for single-file, standalone Shiny applications
• Parse TeX magic comments that start with "%%" (ESS compatibility).
• Change default Rpres template to specify autosize: true
• Automatically create ~/.ssh directory if necessary on Windows
• Added Makefile mode (used for Makefile, Makevars)
• Always use LF for line endings in Unix Makefiles in R packages
• Return environment variables as completions within Sys.getenv(), Sys.setenv() calls
• Add ‘R Scripts’ preset filter to Find in Files dialog
• OS X: Support for executing commands via AppleScript via ‘cmd’ verb
• OS X: Enable WebKit WebGL by default
• OS X: Enable WebKit DeveloperExtras by default
• OS X: Enable creation of directories in folder picker dialog
• Windows: Update to SumatraPDF 3.1.1
• Added ability to zoom panes (e.g. Ctrl+Shift+1 to zoom source pane)
• Add Console on Left/Right commands for quick relocation of Console
• Add product and version metadata to Windows installer
• Add askForPassword function to rstudioapi
• Improved detection of Msysgit installation location on Windows

Server

• Include active project in document title (caption of browser tab)
• Quit session command now accessible from global toolbar
• Added option to control how many days users stay signed in for
• Allow specification of multiple groups in auth-required-user-group option
• Suspend and resume running R sessions when server is restarted
• Add kill-session and kill-all admin commands
• Use SHA256 for signing cookies (previously used SHA1)
• Use more resilient file locking mechanism for compatibility with NFS volumes
• Attempt to close application window when quitting
• Track installed client version using git commit hash rather than timestamp
• Detect minimum user id from /etc/login.defs (can also be specified via option)
• Save user-specific .RData and .Rhistory if .Ruserdata directory exists
• Server Pro: Shared Projects (including concurrent multi-user editing)
• Server Pro: Support for multiple concurrent R sessions per-user
• Server Pro: Support for running against multiple versions of R
• Server Pro: Ability to record user console history for audit purposes
• Server Pro: Home page for navigating to active sessions and recent projects
• Server Pro: Don’t close PAM sessions by default (configurable via an option)
• Server Pro: Remove Google OpenID auth (deprecated by Google in favor of OAuth)
• Server Pro: Add option to specify client-id for Graphite metrics back end
• Server Pro: Supported SSL protocols is now configurable
• Server Pro: Add option to rewrite user header in proxied authentication

Bug Fixes

• Diagnostics: Avoid linting symbols in R formulas
• Diagnostics: Resolve functions in correct namespace
• Diagnostics: Fix invalid diagnostics within formulas
• Diagnostics: Respect // [[Rcpp::export]] functions used in R code
• Fix grid metrics issues (e.g. text too small) by using res of 96 rather than 72
• Correct computation of getOption("width") on high DPI displays
• Rcpp: Parse attributes when generating diagnostics for header files
• Enable outdenting in Rhtml documents
• Find all now respects active search/replace options
• Fix issue with cursor disappearing in Rmd chunks for ambiance theme
• Publish button shows in the editor and viewer at the appropriate times
• Avoid spurious R warnings when autocompletions requested
• Allow completions in statements following infix operators
• Completions in Install Packages are now correct for the case of multiple active repositories
• Vim mode: prevent paste operation from entering visual mode via Ctrl+V cross-talk
• Fixed chunk highlighter issues that occurred when editing chunk label
• Correctly handle call to edit() with no arguments
• Fix inability to start up on OS X when multiple conflicting R versions are on the library search path
• Prevent crash when canceling out of q() prompt on Windows
• OS X: Fix crash which could occur when focusing text boxes with placeholders
• OS X: Viewer now correctly recognizes session temp dir even when prefixed by /private
• OS X: Word document preview now correctly reloads for newer versions of Office
• Fix issue with rstudioapi previewRd function when path included spaces
• R 3.3: Don’t call setInternet2 or use -internet2 flag for child R processes
• Linux, Windows: ensure native printer used (don’t default to PDF printing)
• Linux: Install on Debian Sid and Ubuntu 16.04 via addition of libgstreamer-0.10 dependencies
• Prevent spurious navigation when user cancels from the file upload dialog
• Don’t include H3 (and higher) headers when creating presentation slide preview navigation menu
• Don’t allow long file paths to overflow in message dialogs
• RPM: Set autreqprov to "no" for both desktop and server
• Prevent periods from being used in Rmd date field (caused LaTeX errors)