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Interactive Notebook mode

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Description

First of all, thanks for making VSCode and R such a great partnership! R was the last thing I switched over to VSCode & it's great to be able to do everything in a single editor.

VSCode has a really nice feature where you can have a plain .py script file and mark jupyter notebook cells by # %%: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/jupyter-support-py. Then an interactive notebook opens up that displays output.

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I'm not sure if this is an exposed API from VSCode, but if so, it would be fantastic to have the same capability for R.

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Research direction

Start with the VS Code Python/Jupyter support documentation linked in the issue and the # %% cell convention described there. Determine whether VS Code exposes an API for equivalent behavior in R, then define the expected interactive notebook display and output behavior for a plain R script.

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Assessment

Tech stack
jupyter, r, typescript, vscode
Domain
developer-experience, tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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