Unable to reliably use rstudioapi in the .rprofile startup script

[justacec]

I am executing RStudio in an home directory mounted on a windows UNC file path. I am aware that RStudio does not play nice with this so at the end of my .Rprofile I chdir('u:') which goes to a mapped "u" drive. This has been working great. However, when I open a project, it does not set the working directory to the correct path. It leaves it as "U:". I thought I had a fix for this by putting the following at the end of my .Rprofile:

tdir = 'u:/'
if(rstudioapi::isAvailable()) {
  if(!is.null(rstudioapi::getActiveProject())) tdir = rstudioapi::getActiveProject()
}
setwd(tdir)

However, this does not work. When that code chunk is running, it thinks that RStudio is not running. I determined this by putting a cat(rstudioapi::getActiveProject()) outside the if statement and got a response "Error: RStudio not running".

What can I do so that RStudio correctly opens the project root as the working directory?

A possible solution would be the execution of a different startup script, which is user customizable, after RStudio has been guaranteed to be completely started.

I am running RStudio version 1.1.442 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 OS.

[vnijs]

Similar question. Trying to run a shiny app on Rstudio startup that needs information about rstudioapi::getActiveProject(). Any updates on this perhaps?

[kguidonimartins]

Similar problem here. I tried using rstudioapi::navigateToFile("report.Rmd"), but I did not succeed.

[gtritchie]

This is a known issue with RStudio; the rstudio internals are not yet available when .rprofile is executing.

This issue tracks adding a way to accomplish this: rstudio/rstudio#1579

[julioevi]

we can use hooks now

setHook("rstudio.sessionInit", function(newSession) {
    if (newSession)
        rstudioapi::filesPaneNavigate(getwd())
}, action = "append")