Implement shared R workspace

[gvelasq]

Following our recent post and tweet trialing VS Code and VS Live Share for remote pair programming in R, it would be great if the VS Live Share team could collaborate with the excellent R extension team at vscode-R to implement a shared R workspace in Live Share.

[daytonellwanger]

Hey @gvelasq , any VS Code primitives (language services, terminals, debugging, ...) should be supported by Live Share natively. Any custom extension behavior should be made collaborative inside of the extension using Live Share's extensibility API.

So if you're seeing VS Code primitives not working, that's a bug on Live Share and we'd love to hear which ones aren't working. Is that the case?

If this is a request for custom extension behavior to work in a Live Share session, that would be a feature request on the R extension. But do let us know if you need help getting started or if the API is lacking anything you need.

[gvelasq]

@daytonellwanger, thanks for this information. The R workspace is implemented in the custom extension vscode-R so I'll file a feature request there.

[daytonellwanger]

Thanks! I'll go ahead and close this for now. If you run into specific bugs while adding Live Share support to the R extension, please file them.