So over the past year I have been using #vscode for my #rstats and #python work. my workplace is trying to move to a unified IDE, and vscode allows remote access and WSL integration for free. However, so far it fails to spark joy in me like #RStudio (despite lack of #vim mode) and #PyCharm do. Everything feels clunky, and subpar. The "intelligent" and linting things are also quite broken in R... Has there been extensions that fundamentally change the vscode experience that I should be trying?
@bentoh In my experience the Python stuff is more complex because so much of the ecosystem is repetitive and just a lot of very similar variations. You may find that having Black and Ruff both enabled is part of the problem because the latter is a drop-in replacement for the former, plus it’s a linter.
For R you at minimum need the R extension and the R package {languageserver}, but also ideally you’ll want the radian terminal too.
@jimgar yeah in more than one occasion they are fighting to change my code... definitely had the languageserver but haven't tried out radian terminal, will check it out!
@bentoh For R I wrote a guide for macOS users, but most of it applies to Windows too from what I can tell. It’ll probably be obvious which bits - where you set the paths in the settings json and stuff like that. I hope you find it helpful :)
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