renv with packages for vscode on Ubuntu LTS. See https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/r for more info.

Setup

Adapted from https://github.com/REditorSupport/vscode-R/wiki/Getting-Started and https://github.com/REditorSupport/vscode-R/wiki/Working-with-renv-enabled-projects

1. Install R. See: https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu
2. Install renv. Inside R: install.packages("renv")
3. In this folder: renv::restore()
4. Put output of renv::paths$library() into r.libPaths, e.g.:

  "r.libPaths": [
        "/home/user/R/vscode-R/renv/library/linux-ubuntu-jammy/R-4.4/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
    ]

Additional setup

See:

• https://github.com/REditorSupport/vscode-R/wiki/Installation:-Linux
• https://github.com/REditorSupport/vscode-R/wiki/Recommended-extensions-and-configuration

pandoc

sudo apt install pandoc

radian

Use pipx or pip install --user radian to install for user, then add path to vscode settings, e.g.:

    "r.rterm.linux": "${userHome}/.local/bin/radian",

Settings sync

Make sure to exclude site-specific settings from sync:

    "settingsSync.ignoredSettings": [
        "r.libPaths",
        "r.rterm.linux",
    ]

Environment:

~/.lintr:

linters: linters_with_defaults(
    commented_code_linter = NULL,
    line_length_linter(100),
    object_usage_linter = NULL,
    indentation_linter = indentation_linter(indent = 4L)
  )
encoding: "UTF-8"

~/.Rprofile

r <- getOption("repos")
r["CRAN"] <- "https://cloud.r-project.org"
options(repos = r)
options(Ncpus = parallel::detectCores())

rm(r)

Tips

renv::install replaces BiocManager, devtools::install_github and remotes::install_github. E.g.:

• renv::install("bioc::Biobase")
• renv::install("jaredhuling/jcolors")

To enable BiocManager and not automatically install packages when initializing renv, use:

• renv::init(bare = TRUE, bioconductor = TRUE)

Don't forget to renv::activate() and renv::snapshot().