REditorSupport / REditorSupport/vscode-R
Add support for Viewing `rds` files
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Description
I save R objects regularly as rds files, and it would be great to view them as one can with other file types. An example would be the docx viewer which opens tab with a view of the document. This view should be read only, but editing could be a nice plus. This obviously would only work for tabular data. If the data is not tabular, a message could be displayed.
At the moment, I am using readRDS() |> View() in the running R session, but a bild in solution would be really useful.
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Research direction
The issue points to the existing docx viewer as the closest reference; begin by tracing how that viewer opens a read-only tab in the VS Code R extension. Define the supported tabular RDS behavior, the message for non-tabular data, and validation for the requested view.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- r, typescript
- Domain
- data, devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100