New Features

• A new command "R: Generate C/C++ Configuration" is added to support auto-generating c_cpp_properties.json in an R package with C/C++ code for C/C++ Extension to provide IntelliSense. (#1205, thanks @nx10)

Enhancements

• Support showing KeTeX formula in help viewer. (#1213)

Fixes

• Fixed empty line at the end of help pages as clickable example. (#1194)
• Avoid code highlighting in DESCRIPTION files in help viewer as code examples. (#1199)
• Saving a rmd file no longer triggers the preview to refresh if it is still rendering. (#1219)

Commits

• e660081: Fix empty code examples (#1194) (Manuel Hentschel) #1194
• 129820f: Avoid code highlighting in DESCRIPTION files (#1199) (Manuel Hentschel) #1199
• 402e4e8: Avoid .R file lock on windows (#1192) (Manuel Hentschel) #1192
• a481265: devTasks (#1200) (Manuel Hentschel) #1200
• 7ddd0d5: Add generated .js files to .gitignore (ManuelHentschel)
• e3ede0d: Bug report template: Spelling and formatting (#1206) (Florian Rupprecht) #1206
• ad20fdc: Implement c_cpp_properties.json file generator fixes #1201 (#1205) (Florian Rupprecht) #1205
• Strict TypeScript Fix #1208 (#1209) #1209 (Florian Rupprecht)
• b006ca1: Remove unused NPM dependencies (#1216) (Florian Rupprecht) #1216
• 161e16a: Support KaTeX in help page viewer (#1213) (Kun Ren) #1213
• 5ee9de8: Fix help (Kun Ren)
• c680e64: Fix help katex support (#1217) (Kun Ren) #1217
• 5f6089a: Use asExternalUri instead (Kun Ren)
• ff2f1bc: Fix use of asExternalUri (Kun Ren)
• 8af2cdc: Add isRendering to RMarkdownPreview (#1219) (Kun Ren) #1219
• 5727e0e: release 2.6.0 (Kun Ren)

Enhancements

• Reload help pages on refresh. (#1188)
• Upgrade to vscode-languageclient 8.0.2. (#1173)

Fixes

• Remove encoding from knitting so that renderers that do not have an encoding parameter (e.g. quarto::quarto_render()) now work properly. (#1167)

Commits

• c76d3df: Bump terser from 5.7.0 to 5.14.2 (#1154) (dependabot[bot]) #1154
• da579cc: Remove encoding param from knitting (#1167) (Elian H. Thiele-Evans) #1167
• e7b60a7: Reload help pages on refresh (#1188) (Manuel Hentschel) #1188
• b4d15c9: Upgrade to vscode-languageclient 8.0.2 (#1173) (Kun Ren) #1173
• 708004a: release 2.5.3 (Kun Ren)

New Features

• R help viewer now highlights code sections on hover and user can click the code to copy it to the clipboard, or press ctrl+click (Windows and Linux) or cmd+click (macOS) to send it to R terminal by default. A new setting r.helpPanel.clickCodeExamples is added to allow customizing the click behavior. (#1138)
• A new command Create .lintr is added. (#1112)

Enhancements

• R and Rmd files are added to Create: New File. (#1119)
• Improved data viewer column resizing. (#1121)

Fixes

• Hide environment values in R Markdown preview to prevent accidental deletion (#1117)
• Opening and closing a list item in the workspace viewer treeview now works properly. (#1150)

Commits

• ebb8677: Update publish action (#1101) (Kun Ren) #1101
• 4db097d: Create issues.yml (#1061) (Elian H. Thiele-Evans) #1061
• b6e0a92: Remove nesting: guard clauses (#1110) (Lucas) #1110
• 3ed8483: Hide preview env values to prevent accidental deletion (#1117) (Kun Ren) #1117
• cb51776: Add file creation to file/newFile (#1119) (Elian H. Thiele-Evans) #1119
• 7fd2762: Bump jquery.json-viewer from 1.4.0 to 1.5.0 (#1123) (dependabot[bot]) #1123
• 8f5f781: Update data viewer column resizing (#1121) (Kun Ren) #1121
• 94acedb: Click code in help views (#1138) (Manuel Hentschel) #1138
• 7012e85: Adapt to lintr 3.0 (#1141) (Kun Ren) #1141
• cf7836d: Whitespace in typescript files (#1142) (Manuel Hentschel) #1142
• 1f692eb: Add Create .linr command (#1112) (eitsupi) #1112
• e5b8f0c: Add .yarnrc (ManuelHentschel)
• 3af24dd: Upgrade to ag-grid-community 28.0.0 (#1144) (Kun Ren) #1144
• 208330b: Fix tree item bug (#1150) (Elian H. Thiele-Evans) #1150
• bcb63e9: release 2.5.1 (Kun Ren)
• f868888: Disable publish to openvsx (Kun Ren)
• 72acc75: release 2.5.2 (Kun Ren)

Announcement

• vscode-R has been transferred to REditorSupport as the publisher in the VS Code Marketplace. The unique identifier has been updated to REditorSupport.r. (#690)
• R in Visual Studio Code topic is added to the VS Code documentation.

New Features

• A new setting r.libPaths is added to support additional library paths to be appended to .libPaths() when R background processes (R language server and help server) are launched. It could be useful for projects with renv enabled where required packages (e.g. languageserver and jsonlite) to use vscode-R are only installed in other location. For more details, checkout the wiki. (#1071, #1097, #1098)

Enhancements

• The R package build task is separated into Build and Build Binary tasks. (#1029, thanks @Yunuuuu)
• Hide smart knit environment variables to prevent accidental deletion. (#1060)
• A new setting r.session.data.pageSize is added to support adjusting the page size of the data viewer. The default is now 500. (#1068)
• The check for languageserver package installation is improved and the prompt could be disabled. (#1071)
• The R Markdown code chunk snippet supports language choice. (#1082, thanks @jooyoungseo)
• It will prompt instead of showing empty choice when no R Markdown templates are found. (#1089)

Fixes

• Guard against evaluation of active bindings in the global environment. (#1038)
• The http prefix is unnecessary and removed from several code snippets. (#1084, #1085, thanks @jooyoungseo)
• R Markdown knit and preview scripts now use loadNamespace() instead of requireNamespace() to fail early if necessary packages are unavailable. (#1086)

Commits

• 1ebb8f2: add R package build task - build source and build binary like RStudio (#1029) (Yunuuuu) #1029
• 91e9c06: Use bindingIsActive (#1031) (Kun Ren) #1031
• b003a0e: Fix console err (#1034) (Kun Ren) #1034
• 6547330: guard against evaluation of active bindings (#1038) (Miles McBain) #1038
• dc9b33a: Upgrade ag-grid-community to v27.1.0 (#1049) (Kun Ren) #1049
• 89e9633: Hide smart knit env values to prevent accidental deletion (#1060) (Elian H. Thiele-Evans) #1060
• 02cd835: Add r.session.data.pageSize (#1068) (Kun Ren) #1068
• 672d5e3: Bump ansi-regex from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 (#1070) (dependabot[bot]) #1070
• 9029ddd: Bump minimist from 1.2.5 to 1.2.6 (#1069) (dependabot[bot]) #1069
• d7f769b: Update rGitignore.ts (Kun Ren)
• 626aac8: Add lsp settings to support disabling prompt and additional libPaths (#1071) (Kun Ren) #1071
• 3a0351e: More choices for code chunk snippet (#1082) (JooYoung Seo) #1082
• 6280d58: Take out http (#1084) (JooYoung Seo) #1084
• f32c3c7: Take out http from link snippet (#1085) (JooYoung Seo) #1085
• f463b82: Bump cross-fetch from 3.1.4 to 3.1.5 (#1087) (dependabot[bot]) #1087
• 79be43a: Bump ejs from 3.1.6 to 3.1.7 (#1088) (dependabot[bot]) #1088
• 4296e32: Use loadNamespace (#1086) (Kun Ren) #1086
• a46d910: Prompt when no templates found (#1089) (Kun Ren) #1089
• af5ef98: Update publisher id (#1093) (Kun Ren) #1093
• 539838a: R language server and help supports additional libPaths (#1097) (Kun Ren) #1097
• 449b1f0: Move r.libPaths in setting (Kun Ren)
• be8e92f: Fix lintr complain (Kun Ren)
• c183639: Update r.libPaths (#1098) (Kun Ren) #1098
• 0a41494: release 2.5.0 (Kun Ren)

New Features

• Added "R Markdown: New Draft" command to choose a template for a new R Markdown document. (#984)
• Added Attached Namespaces and Loaded Namespaces to the workspace viewer. (#1022)

Enhancements

• spawn is consistently used to run R scripts and commands. (#985)
• Added a problemMatcher for testthat output from Test task. (#989, thanks @gowerc)
• Code chunk snippets now preserve selected text. (#1001)
• Added more useful Shiny and R Markdown snippets. (#1009, #1012, thanks @jooyoungseo).
• Provides optional code argument to r.runSelection command for other extensions to execute interactive R code. (#1017, thanks @jjallaire)
• Supports lambda function declaration in syntax higlighting. (#1025)

Fixes

• Fixed code detection with mixed quotes. (#988, thanks @gowerc)
• Fixed syntax highlighting for variables starting with function. (#992, thanks @gowerc)
• Fixed R task definition and resolveTask. (#994)
• Fixed auto port forwarding for httpgd plot viewer in LiveShare session. (#1026)

Commits

• aaf809d: Use spawn (#985) (Kun Ren) #985
• 5f7b9e8: Fix commented pipe bug (#988) (Craig Gower-Page) #988
• Add problemMatching to task (#989) #989 (Craig Gower-Page)
• f5d857e: R markdown templates (#984) (Kun Ren) #984
• a621bf8: Fix resolveTask (#994) (Kun Ren) #994
• 26c0887: Preserve selected text (#1001) (Kun Ren) #1001
• 4ba871c: Fix incorrect syntax highlighting for variables starting with "function" (#992) (Craig Gower-Page) #992
• 52aa54e: Provide optional 'code' argument to r.runSelection command (#1017) (J.J. Allaire) #1017
• d9b99b2: Add Shiny snippets (#1012) (JooYoung Seo) #1012
• ff60e42: Add lambda to function-declarations (#1025) (Kun Ren) #1025
• 38b9f44: Enhance workspace viewer (#1022) (Kun Ren) #1022
• e290901: Share httpgd url for LiveShare (#1026) (Kun Ren) #1026
• a3ebb33: Add some useful Rmd snippets (#1009) (JooYoung Seo) #1009
• 3016cd2: release 2.4.0 (Kun Ren)

Fixes

• Fixes languageserver detection failure on Windows by avoiding rpath quoting. (#981)

Commits

• 37a94b8: Avoid rpath quoting (#981) (Kun Ren) #981
• 6e23451: release 2.3.8 (Kun Ren)

Note

• After v2.3.4, httpgd plot viewer requires httpgd 1.2.0 or later. If the plot viewer shows 404 error, installing the latest release of httpgd should resolve the problem. (#972)

Enhancements

• Data viewer supports Apache Arrow Table and r.session.data.rowLimit setting is added to limit the number of rows to show. (#945, thanks @eitsupi)
• R gitignore file is updated and "R: Create gitignore" also supports multi-root workspace. (#949, thanks @eitsupi).
• Httpgd plot viewer has a delay before refreshing to avoid redrawing too often. (#956)
• Shell commands used in tasks use strong quoting. (#964, thanks @shrektan)
• User will be prompted to install languageserver if the package is missing. (#965, @shrektan)
• DCF syntax is updated to support syntax highlighting of .lintr. (#970, thanks @eitsupi)
• Column headers show the class and type of each column in tooltips. (#974, thanks @eitsupi)
• Extension is activated if the workspace folder contains *.{rproj,Rproj,r,R,rd,Rd,rmd,Rmd} at any level of sub-folders. (#979)

Fixes

• Fix typo in command line arguments. (#954, thanks @achey2016)
• R Markdown commenting uses HTML-style comments outside code blocks. (#958)
• R Markdown rendering process gets LANG environment variable to properly handle unicode characters. (#961, thanks @shrektan)

Commits

• 24a47c9: correcting typo on command argument (slient instead of silent) (#954) (Anne Cheylus) #954
• 8b1cb58: update the .gitignore file for R (#949) (eitsupi) #949
• ff977b7: Add delay before refreshing plots (#956) (Manuel Hentschel) #956
• 9275ca1: Fix rmd comment (#958) (Manuel Hentschel) #958
• 25b3dda: Add row limit setting of data viewer and support Apache Arrow Table (#945) (eitsupi) #945
• 423cbd6: Bump node-fetch from 2.6.1 to 2.6.7 (#962) (dependabot[bot]) #962
• 41ba420: set the LANG env when rendering rmarkdown (#961) (Xianying Tan) #961
• 55d6d67: should use Strong quote for shell commands (#964) (Xianying Tan) #964
• 00a89f9: add note about httpgd package version (#972) (eitsupi) #972
• 097791d: update dcf syntax and add support ".lintr" file (#970) (eitsupi) #970
• f8e29d9: prompt to install languageserver is not available (#965) (Xianying Tan) #965
• f7b3df0: [data frame viewer] Add type of column to headerTooltip (#974) (eitsupi) #974
• 66255d9: Upgrade ag-grid-community to 26.2.1 (#975) (Kun Ren) #975
• 1ec6b5a: Activate extension on subfolder (#979) (Kun Ren) #979
• a8c801a: release 2.3.7 (Kun Ren)

Enhancements

• Added raw string syntax. (#922)
• Added support for both single and double brackets in code-server's URI template. (#934, thanks @benz0li)

Fixes

• Fixed syntax highlighting so that variables and function parameters are highlighted more consistently. (#939)
• R processes are now properly terminated on extension deactivation. (#941, thanks @albertosantini and @Yunuuuu)

Commits

• fbe7b5e: Add raw string tokens (#922) (Manuel Hentschel) #922
• 88e7aac: Support both single and double brackets in code-server's URI template (#934) (Olivier Benz) #934
• 9feabde: Rename .Rprofile (#938) (Kun Ren) #938
• b36afc8: Use taskkill for win32 (#936) (Kun Ren) #936
• 0f59ed2: Fixed "punctuation.section.parens.end.r" under "function-parameters" (#931) (RedCMD) #931
• d968dec: Fix syntax file (#939) (Kun Ren) #939
• bf4098a: Use taskkill for win32 (#941) (Kun Ren) #941
• 53976b7: release 2.3.6 (Kun Ren)

Enhancements

• Added devtools tasks to command palette. (#880, thanks @alex-gable)
• Improved help pages readability. (#915, thanks @18kimn)

Fixes

• Fixed R Markdown knit and preview without opening a workspace folder. (#914)
• Fixed DESCRIPTION syntax highlighting for Authors@R field. (#920)
• Fixed an issue about leaking child processes. All spawned child processes (e.g. help server, language server, R Markdown preview) are cleaned up on exit. (#918)

Commits

• a5725e8: adding devtools tasks to command palette (#880) (Alex Gable) #880
• 350ae71: RMD - don't set undefined wd (#914) (Elian H. Thiele-Evans) #914
• 1ce8ee2: Use SIGKILL to kill help server (#912) (Kun Ren) #912
• 22eb07b: readability adjustments for help pages (#915) (Nathan Kim) #915
• 2e82af4: Fix dcf syntax (#920) (Kun Ren) #920
• 96ed474: Clean-up child processes on dispose (#918) (Kun Ren) #918
• 4a09b7f: release 2.3.5 (Kun Ren)

Enhancements

• Quotes in r.rpath.* settings are now removed. (#884)
• Alternative CRAN mirrors such as RStudio Public Package Manager and the ropensci universe are supported. (#876)

Fixes

• Fixed a Uri handling bug in Windows. (#888)
• Fixed a bug in restarting help server when library has changed. (#893)

Commits

• c14e31a: Remove quotes from rpath if necessary (#884) (Manuel Hentschel) #884
• 5a39903: Try different CRAN URLs (#885) (Manuel Hentschel) #885
• ddf9e76: Use Uri.file instead of Uri.parse (#888) (Kun Ren) #888
• bda99c7: Update bug_report.md (Manuel Hentschel)
• 684616c: Clean up of help related files (#887) (Manuel Hentschel) #887
• f3194d0: Use httpgd NPM package (#823) (Florian Rupprecht) #823
• be509a8: Fix helpserver issue (#893) (Manuel Hentschel) #893
• cd8d30d: release 2.3.4 (Kun Ren)