REditorSupport/vscode-R

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R Extension for Visual Studio Code

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Forks: 139
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 224
Avg merge: 2h 46m
Merged PRs (30d): 5

Dominant language: TypeScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 19, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted good first issue

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224 open issues indexed

(`sess`:) Add R-universe install target Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 35/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1737 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Migrate `jgd` to REditorSupport org? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1736 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Modernize CI and dependency maintenance Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1732 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 19, 2026
v3.0.0 release status (roadmap) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1727 · 19 comments · Opened Sep 3, 2026
`sess` targets a dead connection after reload if session watcher turns from on to off Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1726 · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Horizontal lines of removed chunks never go away Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1715 · Opened Jun 21, 2026
"Run source with echo" overrides "Run current code chunk" Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1714 · Opened Jun 21, 2026
`sess` package progress Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1712 · 6 comments · Opened Jun 5, 2026
Opening Find in an unrelated webview activates vscode-R and shows `R: (not attached)` in non-R workspaces Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1711 · 1 comment · Opened May 31, 2026
Error when using plot() in VSCODE, Expected string vector of length 1 Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1710 · 1 comment · Opened May 27, 2026
Errors do not stop code execution Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1700 · Opened May 5, 2026
R 4.6.0: Session watcher not working Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1696 · 27 comments · 13 reactions · Opened Apr 27, 2026
Add option for Markdown-style hierarchical outline in .Rmd files Open

feature-request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1692 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 20, 2026
View() on lists shows blank pane — jquery.json-viewer.css path mismatch in 2.8.7 Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1687 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Mar 20, 2026
Add a setting to Include the renv library (not the cache) to libPaths Open

feature-request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1683 · Opened Mar 11, 2026
R extension overwrites user settings.json with only R-related settings (single line) Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1680 · Opened Feb 17, 2026
R fails to attach packages from folders whose paths contain special characters on macOS Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1675 · Opened Jan 15, 2026
Display argument names like it does in PyCharm Open

feature-request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1674 · Opened Jan 12, 2026
When evaluating a chunk in an RMD file, the params in the yaml metadata header should be evaluated first Open

feature-request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1673 · Opened Jan 10, 2026
Failed to get list of R functions: No method asJSON S3 class: NativeRoutineMap Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1672 · Opened Jan 5, 2026
Inappropriate format on type for `if ()` blocks Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1671 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 28, 2025
Missing terminal newline lint is not reported in VSCode Problem Pane Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1670 · Opened Dec 26, 2025
`r.libPaths` is passed to `VSCR_LIB_PATHS` instead of the standard `R_LIB_PATHS`, which is not used by `R: Create R terminal` and `R: Attach Active Terminal`. Open

feature-request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1669 · Opened Dec 24, 2025
Move help and plot viewers to the VS Code Secondary Side Bar Open

feature-request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1668 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 18, 2025
Treat multiline command as one block in R Console history Open

feature-request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1666 · 5 comments · Opened Dec 12, 2025
"find box" of the help pages viewer does not work Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1663 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 10, 2025
wiki: suggestion and typo Open

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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 70/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1659 · Opened Dec 10, 2025
The editor (sometimes) loses focus when commands that open an interactive viewer are executed Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1658 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 9, 2025
Poor exported plot resolution Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1656 · Opened Dec 7, 2025
PTY Host Error when runing R code on MacOS Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1654 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 5, 2025
Creating new code chunk in R Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 30/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1650 · Opened Oct 9, 2025
Colored Terminal Output Open

feature-request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1649 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 6, 2025
Using air and Ark Open

feature-request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1648 · 10 reactions · Opened Oct 5, 2025
Error Message When Installing languageserver Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1647 · Opened Oct 4, 2025
Detect Needed Packages and Ask to Install Them Open

feature-request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1646 · Opened Oct 3, 2025
Install CRAN Package Not Working Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1645 · Opened Oct 3, 2025
NumFOCUS Funding Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1644 · Opened Sep 29, 2025
"Invalid Number" instead of "NA" Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1642 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 29, 2025
[Documentation] linux installation suggestions Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 72/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1641 · Opened Sep 28, 2025
R Editor Support / R Tools: Missing "Run Selection/Line in Active Terminal" and "Run in R Interactive Window" options in VS Code Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1640 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 2, 2025
Did anything change w.r.t. `R_HOME` and `radian` recently? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1639 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Sep 1, 2025
request codeLensCommands: run to next chunck Open

feature-request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1638 · Opened Aug 27, 2025
Objects lost! Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1637 · Opened Aug 20, 2025
Unable to attach R in active vscode terminal in Posit Workbench Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1636 · Opened Aug 13, 2025
Configurable Working Directory for the R Process(es) Open

feature-request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1634 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 9, 2025
Support for experimental https://lintr.r-lib.org/reference/read_settings.html#details Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1632 · Opened Jul 30, 2025
R linter fails with normalizePath() empty path error in callr subprocess Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1630 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 27, 2025
R Editor Support is not compatible with visual studio code version 1.95.3 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1626 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 20, 2025
Activate extension when a R script file is opened outside of a workspace Open

feature-request

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1624 · Opened Jul 5, 2025
Extension activation fails due to missing R Syntax dependency and command 'r.executeInTerminal' not found Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

REditorSupport/vscode-R#1622 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 14, 2025

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