[RobinL]

It looks like, as far as I can tell, VS Code doesn't support the interactive window for working in R, which was a bit of a surprise to me when i looked it up.

The python interactive window has pretty much fully replaced my use of jupyter, since it gives you notebook-style output without the annoyance of the notebook format. My usual workflow is highlighting lines of code and shift-enter to execute (there's also a cells syntax).

I'm surprised by this because it _is_ possible to use R in Jupyter (although I never really liked the experience, R Studio was far superior).

[yabbs]

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Yes it does.

[RobinL]

I'm specifically referring to: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/jupyter-support-py

The support for R looks a bit different (to me at least?): https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/r

In the screenshot the window on the right does not look comparable to the output in a jupyter notebook. It looks more like a standard terminal. e.g. does it support interactive charts, html tables etc?

The Python interactive window uses the ipykernel package to allow rich outputs like that.

I still might be wrong and would like to be corrected on this, since it would mean R support in VS Code is now better than I thought (I haven't tried it fora. while)

[ZunarJ5]

I use r in a Jupyter Notebook in VS via IRKernel. It's a gem.

[RobinL]

Oh - nice, thanks - so it looks like the interactive window (which is effectivey the same as the output in a jupyter notebook) is also possible, but not (yet) 'properly'/'officially' supported

https://github.com/REditorSupport/vscode-R/issues/1412

[aiisjustanif]

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