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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="https://ikashnitsky.github.io/2018/perfect-rstudio-layout/"> Ilya Kashnitsky</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
<p>Tiny things can separate life into “before” and “after”. Here is one. For almost a year I’ve been daily sending mental “thank you” to Ugo (<a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/ugobas" target="_blank">@ugobas</a>) who showed me how to re-organize panes in RStudio. Since then I’ve been spreading this tiny improvement so many times that I thought the tiny advise deserved a separate tiny post. Please note, below is an opinionated view of a comfortable UI improvement; feel free to ignore it if you don’t like. This advise is <em>highly subjective</em>, though, I really believe it is useful.</p>
<p>I find the default 4-pane layout of RStudio is not perfect. One needs more space for the “Source” pane. Especially when RStudio is used as the main text editor, i.e. <em>the</em> program to write code, papers, blog posts, prepare presentations… Thus, the perfect solution is to move “Console” to the top-right position, leave least useful “History” in the bottom-left corner and collapse it, and move everything else to the bottom-right corner (see the screenshot).</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://i1.wp.com/ikashnitsky.github.io/images/180522/layout-annotated.png?ssl=1" target="_blank"><img alt="fig1" src="https://i1.wp.com/ikashnitsky.github.io/images/180522/layout-annotated.png?w=456&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a></p>
<p>Just go to “Tools” –> “Global options” –> “Pane layout” and fix it.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://i0.wp.com/ikashnitsky.github.io/images/180522/options.png?ssl=1" target="_blank"><img alt="fig2" src="https://i0.wp.com/ikashnitsky.github.io/images/180522/options.png?w=456&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a></p>
<p>That’s it!</p>
<p>Just enjoy your improved RStudio, <em>the</em> program.</p>
<p>P.S. It is also very handy to memorize and use the hot keys for panes. <code>CTRL + #</code> moves focus to the pane, <code>CTRL + SHIFT + #</code> maximizes the pane.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://i0.wp.com/ikashnitsky.github.io/images/180522/hotkeys.png?ssl=1" target="_blank"><img alt="fig3" src="https://i0.wp.com/ikashnitsky.github.io/images/180522/hotkeys.png?w=456&ssl=1" data-recalc-dims="1"></a></p>
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