Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your R file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert R to another file type
To convert R scripts and archives to another format, you need R Project or other Developer software.
Convert a file to R
To convert other file formats to the "Source Code File" file type, you need software like R Project or a similar tool.
About R files
The .R file extension usually identifies an R Script used by the R Programming Language for statistical computing, data analysis, and graphical modeling. These files contain plain text source code. Alternatively, .r files might contain compiled business logic for Progress OpenEdge ABL, or act as a compressed volume in an older multipart WinRAR archive. As a raw code file, an R script requires an R environment or an IDE like RStudio to execute. Sharing .R files with non-technical stakeholders is frustrating because they cannot see the code's output like charts or data tables, only the raw syntax. If it is an OpenEdge file, it is a compiled binary format, making it impossible to read without an expensive proprietary enterprise software license. To share code readability, convert .R to TXT, MD, or PDF. If the .r file is an older compressed archive, extract or convert it to a standard ZIP for native operating system support.
Convert.Guru analyzes your R file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
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 Programming 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 Programming Script" category.
The R Converter Story
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.