Colored text for jobRunScript output

[mike-lawrence]

I have a script that uses the crayon package to color text, and when sourced in the console I get the expected coloring of cat() outputs, but when using rstudioapi::jobRunScript() the job's output isn't colored. For example:

tmp= tempfile()
write('cat(crayon::red("hello"))',tmp)
rstudioapi::jobRunScript(tmp)

[ronblum]

@mike-lawrence Thank you for raising this! We'll review it as part of our ongoing RStudio development.

[jmcphers]

Also just mentioned on https://community.rstudio.com/t/crayon-package-output-not-working-in-rstudio-jobs-tab/106790. I have a recollection of this working in the past; I wonder if a change to the package, or RStudio, broke it?

[jmcphers]

I think this broke in the crayon package in r-lib/crayon@07635d7.

[mike-lawrence]

Ah, yes, when I belatedly just now tried simply using control codes to do the colors manually, they come out fine, so this is a crayon issue rather than an rstudio issue. Thanks for helping work this out!

[mike-lawrence]

Note, made an issue for this on the crayon repo, including code demonstrating it's selective to jobs launched with rstudioapi::jobRunScript() (though still a crayon issue since explicit color codes work fine).