Installation: Windows (original) (raw)

vscode-R

Installvscode-R in VS Code by searching reditorsupport.r in extension marketplace.

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

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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.

languageserver

languageserver is an implementation of theLanguage Server Protocolfor 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.

You can also install the rmarkdown package and Pandoc rendering library to see formatted R help pages upon hover. Previews of function documentation without these dependencies will show a plain page.

rmarkdown can be installed with:

install.packages("rmarkdown")

Pandoc isautomatically installedif you have RStudio on your machine. See the official installation guidehere if you do not have RStudio.

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 toPython Releases for Windows and download the latest executable installer, e.g.Windows x86-64 executable installer.

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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:

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

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-Debuggeris a VS Code extension that implements R debugging capabilities. It depends onvscDebugger.

  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/r-universe
    install.packages("httpgd", repos = c("https://nx10.r-universe.dev", "https://cran.r-project.org"))
  2. Enable r.plot.useHttpgd in VS Code settings.

Troubleshooting WSL

The connection between VSCode and R may fail if an R session is started on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL/WSL2), but VSCode is started outside of the WSL environment (e.g. on plain Windows). For R to work, you must open VSCode on WSL with the code <directory> command so that VSCode "thinks" that it is inside the container.

See issue #910 for details.