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Manage RStudio themes

Source: R/rstudiothemes-actions.R
rstudiothemes-actions.Rd

Install, list, preview or remove the RStudio themes included in rstudiothemes. These functions are adapted from selected rsthemes functions. MIT License Copyright © rsthemes authors.

Important: These functions only work in RStudio and return NULL when called from other IDEs. The exception is list_rstudiothemes(list_installed = FALSE).

Usage

install_rstudiothemes(
  style = c("all", "dark", "light"),
  themes = NULL,
  destdir = NULL
)

remove_rstudiothemes(style = c("all", "dark", "light"))

list_rstudiothemes(style = c("all", "dark", "light"), list_installed = TRUE)

try_rstudiothemes(style = c("all", "dark", "light"), themes = NULL, delay = 0)

Arguments

style

Theme group: "all", "dark" or "light".

themes

Optional character vector of theme names. If provided, only these themes are used and style is ignored.

destdir

Optional directory for .rstheme files. By default, it uses rstudioapi::addTheme(), but this argument allows installation to non-standard directories.

list_installed

Should the installed rstudiothemes themes be listed (default). If FALSE, the available themes in the rstudiothemes package are listed instead.

delay

Number of seconds to wait between themes. Set to 0 to be prompted to continue after each theme.

Value

install_rstudiothemes() and remove_rstudiothemes() return NULL invisibly.

list_rstudiothemes() returns a character vector of theme names.

try_rstudiothemes() has side effects: it starts a widget that allows users to try different themes. The widget can be exited by following the prompts, which restore the original theme.

Functions

  • install_rstudiothemes(): Install RStudio themes.

  • remove_rstudiothemes(): Remove bundled rstudiothemes themes from RStudio.

  • list_rstudiothemes(): List installed or available themes.

  • try_rstudiothemes(): Preview each bundled rstudiothemes RStudio theme.

Bundled themes

rstudiothemes includes RStudio themes based on the following editor themes:

  • Ayu Theme by teabyii.

  • Andromeda Theme by Eliver Lara.

  • Catppuccin Theme by Catppuccin.

  • Cobalt2 Theme by Wes Bos.

  • CRAN Theme by dieghernan, based on the CRAN (R Project) website theme created with Pandoc.

  • Dracula Theme by Dracula.

  • GitHub Dark and Light Themes by GitHub.

  • JellyFish Theme by Pawel Borkar.

  • Matcha Theme by Luca Falasco.

  • Matrix Theme by UstymUkhman.

  • Night Owl Dark and Light Themes (no italics) by Sarah Drasner.

  • Nord Theme by Arctic Ice Studio.

  • OKSolar Theme by dieghernan.

  • One Dark Pro Theme by binaryify.

  • Overflow Theme by dieghernan.

  • Panda Theme by Panda Theme.

  • Selenized Themes by dieghernan.

  • Skeletor Syntax Theme by dieghernan.

  • SynthWave '84 Theme by Robb Owen.

  • Tokyo Night Theme by Enkia.

  • Winter is Coming Theme by John Papa.

References

Aden-Buie G (2026). rsthemes: Full Themes for RStudio v1.2+. R package version 0.5.1, commit 48fc078f772e5e63669bc9773eabc8e9cdc7f699, https://github.com/gadenbuie/rsthemes.

Author

Garrick Aden-Buie https://github.com/gadenbuie

Examples

list_rstudiothemes(list_installed = FALSE)
#>  [1] "Andromeda"                  "ayu Dark"                  
#>  [3] "ayu Light"                  "CRAN"                      
#>  [5] "Catppuccin Latte"           "Catppuccin Mocha"          
#>  [7] "cobalt2"                    "Dracula2025"               
#>  [9] "GitHub Dark"                "GitHub Light"              
#> [11] "JellyFish Theme"            "Matcha"                    
#> [13] "Matrix"                     "Night Owl"                 
#> [15] "Night Owl Light"            "Nord"                      
#> [17] "OKSolar Dark"               "OKSolar Light"             
#> [19] "OKSolar Sky"                "One Dark Pro"              
#> [21] "Overflow Dark"              "Overflow Light"            
#> [23] "Panda Syntax"               "Positron Dark"             
#> [25] "Positron Light"             "Selenized Dark"            
#> [27] "Selenized Light"            "Skeletor Syntax"           
#> [29] "SynthWave 84"               "Tokyo Night"               
#> [31] "Tokyo Night Light"          "Tokyo Night Storm"         
#> [33] "VSCode Dark"                "VSCode Light"              
#> [35] "Winter is Coming Dark Blue" "Winter is Coming Light"