I am wondering why, still, there is not a feature in Rstudio to search all files in the current project (package) and replace a given text!? Or maybe there is one and I am not aware of!
ctrl+shift+f only finds in all files without replacement.
ctrl+shift+j (or ctrl+f) finds and replaces in the current file.
This is now possible with the 1.3 version of RStudio. You can learn more at https://blog.rstudio.com/2020/03/17/rstudio-1-3-the-little-things/.
I wrote a small RStudio Addin to replace in multiple files, which can be used until this functionality is included in some newer RStudio version. Here is a screenshot:
The package is briefly described in my blog post.
From what I have seen on this feature request, it is already available (this was the pull).
RStudio calls this Global Replace:
RStudio has long had a Find in Files feature, which makes it possible to easily locate text in your project. If you’re not familiar with this feature, try it out: press Ctrl+Shift+F (MacOS: Cmd+Shift+F), or choose Find in Files… from the Edit menu.
In RStudio 1.3, it’s now possible to replace the text you found:
After you’ve done a search, switch to Replace view via the toggle, enter your new text, and click Replace All. It works with regular expressions, too.
In order to test it, in RStudio in Windows, when one presses CTRL+SHIFT+F it opens the following
And one can search in the following files
To keep in mind:
You should be aware however that while we do hang out on the community site occasionally, the best place to make your request heard is on our Github issue tracker. (Source)
Also, this is how one write a good feature request.
The best I could find is this, it is a pending issue sine 2014:
Thanks for the feedback. We've got this as a feature request and I'll chalk up another request for this.
This is the Rstudio Github issue related to the enhancement:
https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/issues/2066
Feel free to vote up (thumbs up) the issue to bring more attention to it!
