Positron R Wizard extension: Bring back Rstudio Addin feature

[ntluong95]

You can give the extension a try here

Pipe Toggler

This extension provides a convenient way to toggle the R pipe operator used in Positron, switching between the magrittr pipe %>% and the native R pipe |>.

• Adds a toggle button to the Action Bar to quickly switch between pipe operators.
• Synchronizes a boolean setting positron.r.useNativePipe with Positron's string setting positron.r.pipe.
• Changes are applied at the workspace level.

Automatically replaces all pipe operators in the current R file to match your workspace pipe setting.

• Command: positron-r-wizard.formatPipes ("R: Format Pipes")
• Replaces all %>% with |> (or vice versa) based on your positron.r.pipe setting.
• Shows a count of replacements made.

RStudio Addin Picker

This extension also adds a command to list and launch installed RStudio addins from Positron.

• Command: r.launchAddinPicker
• Available in the editor action bar for R files (click the tools icon).

Usage:

1. Start an R session in Positron.
2. Run the command (via the action bar button or the command palette).
3. Select an addin from the quick pick list to execute it in the R session.

Note: The addin list is generated dynamically by running a small R snippet that inspects installed packages' rstudio/addins.dcf files and writes the result to a temporary JSON file.

💡 Future Ideas

• Add-in picker UI improvements (package separation).

[kv9898]

Looks nice! Is it possible to turn of the pipe feature (I do not want any change to my UI)? Also, the addins seem to be executed silently, but sometimes I need to see the output (e.g. wordcount).

[ntluong95]

Looks nice! Is it possible to turn of the pipe feature (I do not want any change to my UI)? Also, the addins seem to be executed silently, but sometimes I need to see the output (e.g. wordcount).

I see. Yes we can have a configuration with the pipe. For the execution of the addins, could you elaborate more on your usage case?

[kv9898]

I use wordcountaddin to output the word count/readability stats for my quarto/rmarkdown docs

[ntluong95]

I use wordcountaddin to output the word count/readability stats for my quarto/rmarkdown docs

I see. Can you open a feature request ? I will track it later