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Experience of RStudio User Trying to migrate #1366
Description
I am a data scientist. I was recommended to try Visual Studio Code as a replacement for RStudio. I gave it a good shot but decided not to use it for the following reasons:
- I am used to RStudio Code Colouring and was not able to reproduce it in Visual Studio.
- Outline works only half the time and I couldn't find an option to just show a simplified version like in RStudio (only labels lines starting with # outside chunks.)
- Plots/Outputs do not show up inline in the R notebook like in Rstudio. There's no way to quickly copy a plot by right clicking.
- Variables did not show up. I could not double click variables (like a dataframe) to check its contents.
Overall, I think you should address these basic issues to make it easier to migrate from RStudio. It shouldn't be a matter of searching through this issue forum for 2hours+ to get these basic things to work.
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albertosantini commentedon May 23, 2023
Apart the first point, there are a lot of themes outside to choose, the rest of points here work.
Rpanel in the Activity Bar. It contains a Workspace panel with Attached Namespaces, Loaded Namespaces and Global Environment.copyitem.Hope that helps; just in case you may provide more information or steps to reproduce the issue.
benz0li commentedon May 29, 2023
The beauty of VS Code is that it has extensions for R, Python and Julia – today's major Data Science languages.
@purisuto VS Code not only replaces RStudio but also PyCharm and Juno; the latter has been officially replaced by the VS Code Julia extension.
Check out my reference deployment at https://demo.jupyter.b-data.ch or have a look at
ℹ️ Each docker stack has also GPU accelerated images available.
What makes these images different:
linux/amd64,linux/arm64/v8ℹ️ Runs on Apple M series using Docker Desktop.
ℹ️ CUDA-enabled images are Ubuntu-based.
ℹ️ code-server = VS Code in the browser.
LR1933 commentedon Jul 7, 2023
VS Code is great, but the biggest problem for me is that there is no color distinction for the input and output of R code in the terminal. Additionally, the error and warning messages are also written similarly to other code. So I have to face a large white undifferentiated code in terminal when using VS Code. Rstudio does great about this. Do you have any advise to solve this problems?
eitsupi commentedon Jul 7, 2023
@lijiaqi-github Have you tried radian? https://github.com/randy3k/radian
LR1933 commentedon Jul 7, 2023
Sure, but there is a new problem, #1390.
I'm sorry to say this, but I think Radian is a bit slow to respond, and there are some errors that I have never encountered in RStudio.
benz0li commentedon Jul 10, 2023
@lijiaqi-github Can you reproduce this on my reference deployment at https://demo.jupyter.b-data.ch?
/usr/local/lib/R/bin/R/usr/local/bin/pythonℹ️ This seems to be a Windows specific issue.
LR1933 commentedon Jul 11, 2023
@benz0
li I'm not very familiar with programming software, so I'm hoping that's my problem. It was me who made a mistake, but I can't figure out the reason.
Would it be better to switch from Windows to Mac?
Here is my configuration and VScode setting.json. I tried to open Radian by VS Code in your Jupyter link, but I'm not familiar with Jupyter and couldn't succeed. I haven't used Jupyter before, so I don't know how to do it.
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OS: Windows 11 Pro for Workstations version-22H2 22621.1928
Code Version: 1.80.0 (VS code)
Radian Version: 0.6.6 (I don't know how to check the version. I installed radian last week so it should be 0.6.6)
r executable: C:\Program Files\R\R-4.3.1\bin\R.exe
r version: 4.3.1
python executable: C:\Users[myname]\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\python.exe
python version: 3.11.4
VS code setting.json
{
"r.bracketedPaste": true,
"r.rterm.windows": "C:\Users\[myname]\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Scripts\radian.exe",
}
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github-actions commentedon Aug 6, 2024
This issue is stale because it has been open for 365 days with no activity.
ThomasSoeiro commentedon Sep 21, 2026
@eitsupi @Fred-Wu perhaps this "issue" can be closed (no actual issues reported) or moved to https://github.com/REditorSupport/vscode-R/discussions (idk if it is possible)