Installation: Windows

vscode-R

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If your R installation is from CRAN with default installation settings, especially Save version number in registry is enabled as the following image shows:

Then the default settings should work out of the box. Otherwise, you may have to change r.rterm.windows to the path to your R executable, which will be executed on command Create R Terminal.

If you are interested in the experimental features provided by R session watcher, you may enable it in the VS Code settings:

{
  "r.sessionWatcher": true
}

languageserver

languageserver is an implementation of the Language Server Protocol for R.

Run the following commands in R.

You may install the latest stable release from CRAN:

install.packages("languageserver")

or install the development version with the newest features:

remotes::install_github("REditorSupport/languageserver")

which requires Rtools to build.

vscode-r-lsp

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If the R installation is from CRAN as described in the first section, then the default settings should work out of the box. Otherwise, you may have to change r.lsp.path to the path to your R executable, which will be executed to start the R Language Server as a background process.

radian

radian is highly recommended as the R terminal for interactive use.

Since radian is built with python, we need to install python first. Note that radian does not work with the python distributed by Microsoft Store (radian#120) before v0.5.4, we need to install the official version. Go to Python Releases for Windows and download the latest executable installer, e.g. Windows x86-64 executable installer.

Make sure Add Python 3.x to PATH is selected.

Then start a command prompt or Windows PowerShell terminal and type the following command to install radian via pip:

pip install -U radian

To locate the path to radian.exe, run the following command:

where.exe radian

Then the following VS Code settings should be updated to properly use radian as the default terminal. Put the path to radian.exe in r.rterm.windows with all \ replaced with \\. For example, if your radian is installed for user:

{
  "r.bracketedPaste": true,
  "r.rterm.windows": "C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python37\\Scripts\\radian.exe"
}

VSCode-R-Debugger

VSCode-R-Debugger is a VS Code extension that implements R debugging capabilities. It depends on vscDebugger.

1. Install VSCode-R-Debugger extension in VS Code.
2. Install vscDebugger package via

remotes::install_github("ManuelHentschel/vscDebugger")

httpgd

httpgd is an R package to provide a graphics device that asynchronously serves SVG graphics via HTTP and WebSockets. It enables the plot viewer based on httpgd in VS Code.

1. Install httpgd from CRAN

install.packages("httpgd")

2. Enabled httpgd-based plot viewer by inserting the following option in your ~/.Rprofile:

options(vsc.use_httpgd = TRUE)