R function to check for open RStudio Projects that have the same name (macOS only for now). Provides a warning in the console on start-up and (optionally) uses speech to text to tell you which ones are duplicated. You could put this in your .Rprofile so it runs on startup.

check-rproj-dupes.R

# See blogpost for details:
#   https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/07/08/rproj-dupes/

check_rproj_dupes <- function(speak = FALSE) {

  os <- .Platform$OS.type

  if (os == "unix") {

    ps_out <- system("ps -e", intern = TRUE)
    ps_rproj <- ps_out[grepl(".Rproj", ps_out)]
    ps_split <- strsplit(ps_rproj, "\\s")
    rproj_paths <- lapply(ps_split, function(x) x[grepl(".Rproj$", x)])
    rproj_basenames <- lapply(rproj_paths, basename)
    rproj_dupes <- sort(unlist(rproj_basenames[duplicated(rproj_basenames)]))

  }

  if (os == "windows") {
    stop("Sorry, check_rproj_dupes() doesn't work on Windows yet :-(")
  }

  if (length(rproj_dupes) > 0) {

    if (speak & os == "unix") {

      dupes_string <- paste(rproj_dupes, collapse = ", ")
      dupes_string_say <- gsub("\\.Rproj", " dot ar proj ", dupes_string)

      message <- paste(
        "say ha, you fool, you have more than one open RStudio Project with",
        ifelse(length(rproj_dupes) == 1, "this name:", "these names:"),
        dupes_string_say
      )

      system(message)

    }

    warning(
      "You've got open RStudio Projects with the same name:\n",
      paste("-", rproj_dupes, collapse = "\n"), "\n",
      call. = FALSE
    )

  }

}

check_rproj_dupes()
rm(check_rproj_dupes)