Extract text from R files
To convert your R file to another format, you need R Project or other Developer software.
To convert other file formats to the "Statistical Computing Script" file type, you need software like R Project or a similar tool.
The .R file extension is most widely recognized as a source code script written in the R programming language, a standard for statistical computing and graphics. These files contain plain text instructions used by data scientists to manipulate data, generate plots, and run statistical tests.
While .R files are human-readable text, they present significant friction for sharing and archiving. To execute the logic or view the generated graphs, the recipient must have the R environment or an IDE like RStudio installed. Sharing a raw .R file with a stakeholder often leads to confusion, as they cannot see the resulting data visualizations or reports without running the code. Furthermore, relying on proprietary or version-specific packages can lead to compatibility errors where the script fails to run on a different machine.
To overcome these accessibility barriers, users should convert .R files based on their intent. For sharing analysis results or code documentation with non-technical users, converting to PDF or HTML is ideal, as it preserves formatting and ensures the content is viewable in any browser. For archiving code logic in a universally accessible format without risking character encoding issues, converting to TXT or DOCX is recommended. Note that converting the script file itself only converts the code text, not the output (graphs/tables), unless the script is processed/knitted first.
Convert.Guru analyzes your R file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted RDATA, RMD, REZ, RPROJ, RHISTORY, RDS, RDA, DOCX, BIN, TXT, ZIP, QMD and MXV files.
If you want to convert R file to PYTHON, F, JS, TS, PY, JAVA, CPP, C, CS, PHP, RB or GO, you can use R Project or similar software from the "Statistical Analysis Script" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert SH, PY, KT, PS1, SWIFT, LUA, PL, JAVA, SCALA, JS, VBS or TS files to R, try R Project or another comparable tool in the "Statistical Analysis Script" category.
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our R converter.