I would like to use the R environment I installed with conda inside Visual Studio Code (on Macos). First I installed R with conda. But how do I use/activate the environment in Visual Studio Code? In the settings I can't find the equivalent to "Python: Select Interpreter" or "python.venvPath" Thanks!
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R support in VSCode is handled by a 3rd party extension. The most popular one is R by Yuki Ueda and there is also R Tools by Mikhail Arkhipov
For both of these, you can change the R interpreter to use in the settings.
However, there is no built-in support for Anaconda, mostly because it isn't that popular or necessary in the R community. Most people use the standard R installation instead and most help resources are written for that type of installation: https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/macosx/
It has been 2 years since this entry and the extension still doesn't support conda environments.
For my configuration (I've R installed in a conda environment), I found a pretty painless work around:
- open 'vscode'
- install the extension and configure it as suggested using the
condapaths for bothRand, if you have it installed,radian - close 'vscode'
- open a terminal
- activate your conda environment
- start
vscodefrom your terminal usingcode
After this, everything seems to be up and running correctly. You can start an R terminal using the command palette and, as you run your code, you should be able to see all the information about the environment and namespaces as well as your plots.
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