So far, I have only used Quarto in RStudio and am a big fan of the way it looks and works. ![]() I recently started playing around with Quarto, which looks like the natural successor to Rmarkdown. This is one of the biggest reasons I am not completely switching to VSCode just yet. I have searched for solutions, including globally installing pandoc, knitr and rmarkdown etc and trying multiple versions of R and the packages mentioned previously to no avail. ![]() Creating new notebooks is unintuitive and still a long way behind RStudio in terms of the overall feel to it. My existing notebooks created in RStudio were buggy in VSCode despite not showing any errors in RStudio. The notebook support in VSCode is in a single word - terrible. This is where VSCode falls so much behind RStudio it becomes a one horse race. So if you’re like me and you use R mainly for statistical analysis, data visualization and data analysis give VSCode a try. R files VSCode is a great alternative for a lot of people including me. In terms of running and getting results for plain R code and. The shortcut can be easily modified similar to how the pipe operator shortcut is modified above. A run file button is located at the top of the panel and individual lines of code can be run using the cmd+return shortcut on mac. Running a piece of code is again, very similar to RStudio. ![]() So VSCode feels very familiar and running code is highly intuitive. Terminal and console position can be modified to make get the input and output panes next to each other, something you cannot do well in R-Studio. Working with R is very similar to a regular RStudio IDE R-extension provides the same support for installing packages, plots and plot viewer, global environment, datasets, plots, lists, variables, checking loaded packages etc. Some simple shortcuts like the pipe operator doesn’t work out of the box, so adding a shortcut for “%>%” or “|>” depending on your preference can be done using the following method: To eliminate any potential errors/code not work, you must make sure the R path is specified in the VSCode preferences (cmd+shift+p on mac) and search for R path.įinding the path is simple, open R and type:Īnother somewhat major tweak you would want to do to the editor: You can now start working with code but there are potentially times you could run into errors while running your code. Optional: You can install a better terminal alternative like radian, a debugger and a better plot-viewer like httpgd because the builtin plot-viewer for VSCode isn’t a particularly good one. ![]()
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