PluginStatsR Syntax installs statistics
By REditorSupport (2 listings) · VS Code Marketplace · Programming Languages
R Synxtax Highlight for Visual Studio Code
R Syntax has 970,361 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace, ranking #547 of 2,501 tracked listings.
Rating: 1.00 / 5 from 1 ratings
About R Syntax
R Syntax Highlight
This Visual Studio Code extension provides syntax highlighting for R and R Markdown extensions.
It brings more consistency with other VS Code language syntaxes (such as Python and C) and Sublime Text R syntax.
It only contains syntax definitions to allow users to switch to alternative formatters and language servers such as air and ark.
Installation
The releases are available in VSCode Marketplace or Open VSX Registry. Search for extension "R Syntax".
Contribution
If you are interesting in contributing to the syntaxes, feel free to clone the repository and edit the r.yaml and rmd.yaml files under the syntaxes directroy.
In order to build the json files, you will need to install node.js and run
npm install
npm run build
# or the following if you want to build the json files in watch mode
npm run build -- --watch
You should also run the grammar tests located in the tests/testdata. See vscode-tmgrammar-test for details.
npm run test:grammar
# or the following if you want to test in watch mode
npm run test:grammar -- --watch
Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.
- R
- R Language
- R Markdown
- R Syntax
- rmd
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Install counts, average rating, and rating counts come from the public Visual Studio Marketplace gallery API. Installs are cumulative and exclude updates.
Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=REditorSupport.r-syntax. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 20, 2026. See the methodology.