RStudio R File Corruption

Question

I had a R script open in RStudio. The file was saved many times over the course of several weeks and worked perfectly fine when RStudio was opened and closed. However, today

Answer 1

It might be an old thread and it might have been covered in 'user4458796' answer in suggestion #1 ("Use the history..."), but:

My friend had the same problem and we managed to recover the code from a 'history_database' files located on Windows at: 'C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\'

I assume there is an equivalent location in Linux in general.

Hopefully I won't get downvoted, just sharing my 2cents.

Ben.