A bash shell script that can be used to turn the current directory into an RStudio project, opening the project in RStudio after creating it.

mkrproj.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Usage: mkproj [projectname]
# projectname defaults to name of current directory

template="Version: 1.0\nRestoreWorkspace: Default\nSaveWorkspace: Default\nAlwaysSaveHistory: Default\n\nEnableCodeIndexing: Yes\nUseSpacesForTab: Yes\nNumSpacesForTab: 4\nEncoding: UTF-8\n\nRnwWeave: knitr\nLaTeX: pdfLaTeX"

wd=$(basename `pwd`)

if [ -z $1 ]; then
  projectname=$wd
else
  projectname=$1
fi

echo ${template} > "${projectname}.Rproj"

# Open the newly created project in RStudio:
open "${projectname}.Rproj"