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R Extension for Visual Studio Code

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This VS Code extension provides support for the R programming language, including features such as R language service based on code analysis, interacting with R terminals, viewing data, plots, workspace variables, help pages, managing packages, and working with R Markdown documents. See the wiki for full documentation.

The R and R Markdown syntaxes are located in a sibling package vscode-R-syntax.

What's new in 3.0.0

v3.0.0 is a major release with faster, more reliable R session communication, powered by the sess package. The extension includes sess and prompts to install or update the bundled copy when needed. Missing Imports are installed from the configured R repository. See the changelog for other changes and upgrade notes.

Quickstart

1. Install R (>= 3.4.0) on your system. On Windows, we recommend letting the installer write the R path to the registry.

2. Install the languageserver package from R.

   install.packages("languageserver")
   

3. Install the stable release of this extension from the VS Code Marketplace or the Open VSX Registry. This release requires VS Code 1.110 or later.

   code --install-extension REditorSupport.r
   

   To receive daily development updates, choose Switch to Pre-Release Version on the R extension's page in VS Code. New pre-releases are published to the VS Code Marketplace and Open VSX Registry when main changes and verification passes. Choose Switch to Release Version to return to stable releases. When reporting problems, include the extension version and reproduction steps.

   Alternatively, you can test the latest development version by installing from GitHub:

   <details> <summary>Install the development version</summary>

   The latest pre-release is updated after successful verification of a push to main. Download and install it:

   curl -fsSL -o vscode-R.vsix https://github.com/REditorSupport/vscode-R/releases/download/latest/vscode-R.vsix
   code --install-extension vscode-R.vsix
   

   </details>

4. Create an R file and start coding! (Click Yes if prompted to install sess.)

Recommended extras

Steps 1–3 above are all that's required to get started with R in VS Code. But we also recommend the following software for a fully optimized R + VS Code experience:

• Install an interactive plotting backend for a better R graphics experience:

  • jgd: Lightweight JSON graphics device with native vscode-R integration.
  • httpgd: SVG-based graphics device served via HTTP and WebSockets.

• arf: A modern R console with many features: syntax highlighting, multiline editing, vi/emacs keybindings, R version switching, etc. Successor to radian written in Rust.

• Complementary VS Code extensions:

  • Quarto: the official Quarto plugin for VS Code.
  • VSCode-R-Debugger: enables VS Code's debugging facilities for R scripts.

For example, assuming that you have installed arf and jgd, your user settings.json might include:

{
    "r.consolePath": "arf",
    "r.bracketedPaste": true,  // recommended for arf (and radian)
    "r.plot.backend": "jgd"    // "auto" already prefers jgd, then httpgd
}

Please consult the relevant installation wiki pages for your OS (Windows | macOS | Linux) for more detailed instructions.

Set r.plot.backend to "native" to use R's configured graphics device without opening the VS Code plot viewer automatically. The "standard" backend continues to display static plots in VS Code.

Features

• Snippets for R and R Markdown.

• R Language Service: Code completion, function signature, symbol highlight, document outline, formatting, definition, diagnostics, references, and more.

• Interacting with R terminals: Sending code to terminals, running multiple terminals, working with remote servers.

• Package development: Build, test, install, load all and other commands from devtools.…