Issues with completions in R

[mohelm]

Hey - I am having some troubles with the completions in qmd documents.

In particular, i do not get completions for my "own" functions and also for r libraries like, say, dplyr, I only get completions if I do dplyr::mut... (as an example). Is this expected?

Many thanks for the plugin!

[jmbuhr]

From my experience the R language server doesn't automatically discover all R files in a directory. Instead it needs to be specifically notified of open R files. This means that if you do

source('my_libraries.R')
source('my_functions.R')

in your quarto document, the R language server doesn't immediately know that e.g. dplyr is loaded in my_libraries.R and thus should also be available in the Quarto document.
To work around this I just go used to opening the files I am sourcing at least once at the beginning of my session.
In Neovim you can hover over the filename and press gf or gF to open the filepath under the cursor, then c-^ to go back to the previous buffer.

[mohelm]

i use renv if this means anything here?

[jmbuhr]

is the language server installed into the same renv and is this the one being used?

[mohelm]

i would say yes. i did install it with the renv command.

[mohelm]

Hm do you think it could be because I use blink or should that work?

[jmbuhr]

I'm also using blink and it works, it should be independent of the plugin that displays the completions. But I also sometimes have instances in which it doesn't work and haven't quite figured out when those are.