pastepath

The goal of {pastepath} is to let Windows users copy-paste a path in RStudio (e.g. from Explorer), automatically dealing with the backslashes/quotes.

• Backslashes \ are always converted to /
• Double quotes are added, if necessary

Examples

• C:\Users\MyUser\my project becomes "C:/Users/MyUser/my project"
"C:\Users\MyUser\my project" becomes "C:/Users/MyUser/my project"
'C:\Users\MyUser\my project' becomes 'C:/Users/MyUser/my project'

• Relative paths:
  data\cache becomes "data/cache"

Installation

You can install the addin from this GitHub:

remotes::install_github("lgaborini/rstudio-pastepath")

Usage

The addin provides two commands:

• "Paste path as character vector" (default usage)
  Useful for paths containing spaces, the clipboard contents are escaped, then surrounded by " (unless already wrapped in " or ').
  Note: it works also for text data to quickly create a character vector.
• "Paste path without quotes"
  As before, but it skips the wrapping.

Protip: assign a keyboard shortcut to one of these commands (e.g. ctrl+shift+V)!