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Is there a shortcut for clearing .Rhistory in Visual Studio

I am starting to prefer Visual Studio with RTVS over RStudio because of Visual Studio's great find-and-replace facilities. My only gripe is that it often finds things in my .Rhistory file when I'm trying to search through my code.

Is there a shortcut key for deleting the contents of .Rhistory when using R Tools for Visual Studio?

I am using RTVS v1.0.30321.1407 with Visual Studio 2015.

Solution

  • You can tell RTVS not to keep your history around by going to R Tools -> Options -> Always save history -> set to FALSE.

    You can also delete an existing .RHistory file if you don't want to keep it around. It's just a regular file; if you have a project loaded, it'll be in your project directory.

    Other than that, it's a good idea to specify a file type when doing a search through multiple files. That will stop .RHistory from showing up in the first place.