Interacting with R terminals
In VS Code window, press F1 (or Ctrl + Shift + P) and choose "R: Create R terminal" command, then the VS Code terminal will be revealed and an R terminal will be launched.
By default, the official R terminal is launched.
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If the R session watcher is enabled, then it will attach to the R session whenever a new R terminal is created. The status of the session watcher is shown in the status bar like below:
By default, if there is no active R terminal, then a new R terminal will be created before sending code to it. To always send code to the active terminal without creating a new one, turn on r.alwaysUseActiveTerminal in VS Code settings.
The behavior of sending code to the terminal is following:
- If a range of code is selected, then the selected code will be sent to the terminal.
- If no code is selected, then an executable range of code will be sent to the terminal and the cursor will move to the next line.
Each time "R: Create R terminal" is executed, a new R terminal is created. The user could switch between these R terminals, and customize the icon color and the label of each terminal.
To make the session watcher attach the R session of the current R terminal, click the status bar item "R: (not attached)" or "R: #PID" if a session is previously attached.
