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Combine rterm/rpath settings for different operating systems?
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Description
We have separate settings for R paths on different platforms:
r.rpath.windows,r.rpath.mac,r.rpath.linuxr.rterm.windows,r.rterm.mac,r.term.linux
But as far as I can tell we don't handle these differently in the code. We check the user's OS, then choose the setting for that OS. So I think we could just have r.rpath and r.rterm. This would simplify things for the user (fewer settings) and for our code.
The downside to this change would be that a lot of users would already have those settings set. I think settings can be automatically migrated - I believe this was done recently when the vscode-jupyter extension was split out from the vscode-python extension. I could look into how they did it and see whether it seems practical. If the user has multiple of those settings set, we could show a message to ask them to choose which one to retain.
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