Oh fab it works! thanks v much i'd never used open file like that before Nick
> On 21 May 2018 at 12:24 Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 21/05/2018 7:20 AM, Nick Wray via R-help wrote: > > Hello. I'm not sure whether this is strictly the right forum but here > > goes... I have got a new (well reconditioned) laptop and have installed R > > studio on it. That works fine if I say write a little prog directly into it > > or paste R script from a word doc. But if I try to open an R prog (which > > I've written elsewhere, the laptop doesn't recognise it as an R prog. > > Instead it gives me a little icon with a pair of binoculars and says to try > > to find an app for opening said file. > > > > But up to now I can't find anything on the net which will open the R files > > in the same way as they simply do on my desktop or old laptop. > > > > I'd be grateful for any ideas or pointers > > If you open RStudio, and use the File | Open File... menu, will it open > the program? > > If so, then the problem is with your file associations. If you're using > Windows, you need to right click on the file, choose "Open with...", > then pick RStudio and check the box saying you want to open all files > that way. > > Duncan Murdoch [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.