Setting up R and Visual Studio Code (VSC)

This README shows how to set up R and VSC. This README was written

The recording for this presentation is here.

Credits & References

A lot of this knowledge was provided by Ken Run in his blog:

• https://renkun.me/2019/12/11/writing-r-in-vscode-a-fresh-start/
• https://renkun.me/2022/03/06/my-recommendations-of-vs-code-extensions-for-r/
• https://renkun.me/2020/06/16/using-httpgd-in-vscode-a-web-based-svg-graphics-device/
• https://renkun.me/2020/09/13/debugging-r-in-vscode/

Other references:

• https://www.programmingwithr.com/setup-visual-studio-code-to-run-r-on-vscode-2021/
• https://github.com/REditorSupport/vscode-R/wiki
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57395681/getting-visual-studio-code-to-auto-format-r-code
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71608612/how-to-add-keybindings-in-visual-studio-code-for-the-r-terminal

Instructions

Pre-requisites

• R installed on your local machine
• Visual Studio Code installed on your local machine

1. Install the languageserver and httpgd packages on your local machine. If you use renv, install these packages in the base environment
2. Install the R Extension for Visual Studio Code

The previous steps will get you started. For additional configuration settings, you may want to take some of the settings in copy the file and add them to your VSCode User Settings.

Using radian

If you want to use radian as the R console, you will need to have it installed in your base Python environment.

Add the following lines to your VSC Settings:

"r.rterm.mac": "<PATH-TO-RADIAN>",
"r.bracketedPaste": true,

Using R with VSC on Azure Machine Learning

• Articles about using R with AzureML: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/how-to-r-overview-r-capabilities?view=azureml-api-2

• Repo associated with the articles: https://github.com/wahalulu/using-r-with-azure-machine-learning

• Recording of the walkthrough in Seth Jaurez's AI Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjsTg2v5aSQ&ab_channel=MicrosoftDeveloper