File viewer not refreshing after updating file

[boshek]

Starting the discussion here to ascertain if this is a bug or a skill issue.

Using latest positron:

Positron Version: 2024.12.0 (Universal) build 80
Code - OSS Version: 1.93.0
Commit: c3c489641477362638b2a80d94355a86a63eeb21
Date: 2024-11-26T02:46:47.938Z
Electron: 30.4.0
Chromium: 124.0.6367.243
Node.js: 20.15.1
V8: 12.4.254.20-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 23.6.0

Using R 4.4.1

Issue

• Open positron
• Create a parquet file library(arrow); write_parquet(iris, "iris.parquet")
• Open iris.parquet in viewer ✅
• Overwrite a parquet file write_parquet(iris[,2:4], "iris.parquet")
• Open iris.parquet in viewer ❌ <- does not update
• Confirm correct parquet actually got written names(read_parquet("iris.parquet")) ✅

So it seems like somewhere the parquet viewer in not updating. Also this is not an R thing. Also replicated with pandas.

Update - replicated with a csv file as well

write.csv(iris, "iris.csv")
write.csv(iris[,2:4], "iris.csv")
names(read.csv("iris.csv"))

[juliasilge]

Yep, I don't believe we have this kind of updating wired up for the headless/DuckDB Data Explorer, as opposed to the runtime (R and Python) based Data Explorer implementations. I have opened #5551 to track and prioritize this feature. Thank you! 🙌