lintr session does not load init file

[adamaltmejd]

Hey,

I have a ~/.Rprofile file that among other things contains .libPaths("~/.R/packages"). Saving all packages in a user-defined library. This is useful for many reasons, and most things in vscode-R work well as long as I change the main startup settings to not include "vanilla":

"r.rterm.option": ["--no-save"]

But it seems that the R session that lints code is still loaded using the vanilla option since vscode-R keeps nagging me about the linter not being installed each time I save an .R file, even if the lintr library is loaded in the console. Trying to install things in the default directory doesn't work properly when R is installed with Homebrew (probably due to this issue: Homebrew/homebrew-core#17098). But even if it would, the "install lintr" command executes install.packages("lintr") to my own library so after a successful install, it still cannot find the package.

According to man R:

       --vanilla
              Combine  --no-save, --no-restore, --no-site-file, --no-init-file
              and --no-environ

Why do you need to run --no-site-file, --no-init-file and --no-environ? My suggestion would be to default to only --no-save and --no-restore, for both the lintr session and the console session.

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[Ikuyadeu]

@adamaltmejd Thank you for your good idea!
Before the change is not for many R users.
First, I'll try to"r.rterm.option": [--no-site-file, --no-init-file, --no-environ].
Is it OK?

[adamaltmejd]

Hi! Thanks!

I would let r.term.option default to "r.rterm.option": ["--no-save", "--no-restore", "--no-site-file"] to allow for environmental variables and user Rprofile to influence the session. But this option does not affect the session in which the lintr is loded is it? Either one could let r.term.option also govern the startup options for the lintr session, or you could just hardcode the startup of the lintr to not use R --no-save --no-restore --no-site-file.

Thanks for your great work, almost wanting to drop iTerm for this extension :).

[Ikuyadeu]

@adamaltmejd Thank you and sorry my late reply.
Now version is used for your recommended settings

[adamaltmejd]

Excellent, thanks!