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MarBlo
MarBlo

Reputation: 4524

How can I avoid VSCode to open a new plot window?

I am setting up VSCode for R. Most of what I have right now works reasonably well. What still is a bit annoying to me is, that VSCode always opens a new window for a plot, if I make a change to it.

What I would like to do is:

I followed the instructions from Ken Run and also installed httpgd but could not make VSCode to do what I want.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 858

Answers (1)

MarBlo
MarBlo

Reputation: 4524

The problem is that a .Rprofile inside the project prevents a global one to be loaded.

It is also crucial to set the options right. With the following code in my project-.Rprofile I could get what I want:

  • opening a plot directly in my browser without opening a plot inside VSCode.
if (interactive() && Sys.getenv("RSTUDIO") == "") {
  source(file.path(Sys.getenv(
    if (.Platform$OS.type == "windows") "USERPROFILE" else "HOME"
  ), ".vscode-R", "init.R"))
  if ("httpgd" %in% .packages(all.available = TRUE)) {
    options(vsc.plot = FALSE, vsc.use_httpgd = FALSE)
    options(device = function(...) {
      httpgd::hgd(silent = TRUE)
      .vsc.browser(httpgd::hgd_url(history = FALSE), viewer = FALSE)
    })
  }
}

Help came from here and REditorSupport. Thanks to @andycraig to point again to R Session Watcher.

Upvotes: 3

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