6 Life-Altering RStudio Keyboard Shortcuts
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The RStudio IDE is amazing. You can enhance your R productivity even more with these simple keyboard shortcuts.
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6 Keyboard Shortcuts (that will change your life)
Let’s speed up common activities with these 6 super-useful keyboard shortcuts.

1: Commenting & Uncommenting Code
[Ctrl + Shift + C]
I use this all the time to turn text into commented text. Works with multiple lines too.
Go from this…

To this…

2: Add the Pipe %>%
[Ctrl + Shift + M]
My students absolutely love this. You can easily add the Pipe %>% in any spot you’d like! Perfect for data wrangling with dplyr.

3: Insert The Assignment Operator
[Alt + -]
My code has tons of assignment operators. This is a simple, time-saver that will make you more productive in building functions and assigning variables values.

4: Cursor-Select Multiple Lines
[Ctrl + Alt + Up/Down/Click]
This is a recent addition to my portfolio of must-know keyboard shortcuts. Using Multi-Cursor Select has now become a go-to for editing R code.
Multi-Line Select

…And edit!

5: Find in Files
[Ctrl + Shift + F]
THIS IS A SUPER POWER. Seriously. Learn to use this one right now!
Find in Files

Found every instance of ggplot by file!

6: Keyboard Shortcut Cheat Sheet
[Alt + Shift + K]
More shortcuts!!! Run this to get a Keyboard Shortcut Cheat Sheet.

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