Change RStudio Default R Notebook to blank

Question

The default R Notebook has a lot of prepopulated text. Is there a way to change this, so that when a new R Notebook is created, it is just a blank notebook?

Answer 1

On my machine (OSX) I can edit the template r_markdown_notebook.Rmd found at this location:

/Applications/RStudio.app/Contents/Resources/resources/templates

On Windows look inside the RStudio folder:

C:\Program Files\RStudio\resources\templates

On Ubuntu/Mint (Linux), you will need sudo:

/usr/lib/rstudio/resources/templates