How-To: Rstudio: Launch Rstudio in Conda Environment From Command Line

Summary

Launching RStudio from a specific Conda environment ensures that your R sessions use the exact package versions, dependencies, and R executable isolated within that environment.

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Question

How do I launch Rstudio in a conda environment from the command line?

Answer

1. Open an anaconda prompt or terminal.

Note: To open an Anaconda Prompt in Windows or the Terminal in MacOS, see "How-To: Using Anaconda - Launch a Virtual Conda Environment via Command Line Interface

2. From the command line (CLI) in the base environment, activate the conda environment you wish to use.

Note: To activate a conda environment, see "How-To: Using Anaconda - Activate a Virtual Conda Environment via Command Line Interface"

anaconda prompt with "conda activate my_rstudio_env"

3. From the CLI in the activated environment, add the Rstudio executable to the path:

set path="C:\Program Files\RStudio";%path%

$anaconda prompt with "set path="C:\Program Files\RStudio";%path%"$

Note: Enure Rstudio was installed from the company portal so the above path is correct, see "How-To: Install Rstudio From Company Portal"

4. From the CLI in the activated environment, enter "rstudo" to launch.

anaconda prompt with "rstudio"

Details

Article ID: 2457

Created

Fri 5/22/26 8:34 AM

Modified

Fri 5/29/26 11:25 AM