posit-dev / posit-dev/positron
Change `R: Document R Package` command to run as task in separate R process
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Description
System details:
Positron and OS details:
Positron Version: 2025.09.0 (user setup) build 139
Code - OSS Version: 1.103.0
Commit: 30e3d0a74e09a0f6640929822cb57a326671360e
Date: 2025-08-29T18:50:28.998Z
Electron: 37.2.3
Chromium: 138.0.7204.100
Node.js: 22.17.0
V8: 13.8.500258-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100
and
Positron Version: 2025.01.1 build 0
Code - OSS Version: 1.96.0
Commit: e51707059b519f02aee408a3578cd81af6224476
Date: 2025-02-01T23:19:40.362Z
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Session details:
R 4.4.3 and R 4.5.1
Describe the issue:
Positron is inserting Escape and Bell characters into R markdown with {roxygen2} while running devtools::document(). The same characters are not added when running in RStudio
Positron creates this line:
#> i Run ]8;;x-r-run:admiral::get_duplicates_dataset()admiral::get_duplicates_dataset()]8;; to access the duplicate records}\if{html}{\out{</div>}}
RStudio creates this line:
#> i Run `admiral::get_duplicates_dataset()` to access the duplicate records}\if{html}{\out{</div>}}
Steps to reproduce the issue:
- Run
devtools::document()on the following file from{admiral}:
https://github.com/pharmaverse/admiral/blob/main/R/derive_extreme_records.R
Expected or desired behavior:
See RStudio output above
Were there any error messages in the UI, Output panel, or Developer Tools console?
No
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the R: Document R Package command and reproduce the issue by running devtools::document() on R/derive_extreme_records.R from the linked admiral package. Trace how the command launches R and compare its output with the RStudio example; done means the generated roxygen2 text contains backticks without Escape or Bell characters.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- r, typescript
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100