Data Viewer range selection & console indexing

[stefanofioree]

It’d be great if the Data Viewer supported not only selecting columns or rows, but also individual cells and combined ranges (like in Excel). And on top of that automatically showing the corresponding code in the console
df[6:7, 5]
Same for selecting a column
df[,5]
or row,
df[5,]
or multiple ranges
df[c(1:3, 8:10), c(2, 5)]
This would make things much easier for beginners and still save a lot of time for experienced users.

[dhruvisompura]

The Data Viewer does support individual cell and combined range selection, alongside column and row selection!
We cover how to select ranges in our docs here: https://positron.posit.co/data-explorer.html#grid-selection-and-copy-and-paste. The tl;dr is to hold down the Shift key when making your selection.

We don't currently have a way of providing the code equivalent for the cell selection a user has made though. Could you tell me a bit more about the overall workflow you are envisioning with this. Are you looking for a way to easily copy/see the code equivalent of the selection to create a new dataframe given the selection?