RStudio Keybindings

Keyboard shortcuts are the most efficient way to accomplish tasks that come up frequently in your coding workflow. As you migrate from RStudio to Positron, maintaining your productivity means working with, not against, your muscle memory.

Many familiar shortcuts will work immediately, because they are built in to Positron and its integrated R support. These are documented with Positron’s general keyboard shortcuts (where you can also learn how to customize shortcuts) and keyboard shortcuts specific to R programming. Another set of shortcuts can be enabled to align as closely as possible to RStudio’s behavior.

RStudio keybindings in Positron

A large set of RStudio keybindings can be enabled with the workbench.keybindings.rstudioKeybindings setting. Restart Positron after changing this setting.

Shortcut Description

Focus Source

Focus Console

Go to Function/Symbol

Comment/Uncomment a line

Create a new R file

Go to definition

Reindent selection

Reformat selection

Source the current R script

Rename symbol

Insert code cell (Quarto)

Run current statement (Quarto)

Run current cell (Quarto)

Open version control pane

Go to previous tab

Go to next tab

Delete the current line

Set working directory

Insert section

Open global keybindings list