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How can I search my snippets files in RStudio?

Snippets files are not searchable as opened in RStudio, and as I have lots of snippets I often need to search through them, particularly my lesser used snippets. Is there an efficient way to search snippets within RStudio?

Solution

  • Since all snippets are saved by default in ~/.R/snippets, they can be viewed by executing

    ls ~/.R/snippets

    I then wrote this convenience function so I can open and search my snippets in RStudio:

    snippet_search <- function(language=c('r', 'sql', 'python', 'markdown'), dir = '~/.R/snippets'){
    file <- glue::glue('{dir}/{language}.snippets')
    file.edit(file)
}

snippet_search('r')