rstudioapi (version 0.13)

rstudio-editors: Retrieve Information about an RStudio Editor

Description

Returns information about an RStudio editor.

Usage

getActiveDocumentContext()
getSourceEditorContext()
getConsoleEditorContext()

Value

A list with elements:

id	The document ID.
path	The path to the document on disk.
contents	The contents of the document.
selection	A list of selections. See Details for more information.

Details

The selection field returned is a list of document selection objects. A document selection is just a pairing of a document range, and the text within that range.