v2.5.0

Announcement

• vscode-R has been transferred to REditorSupport as the publisher in the VS Code Marketplace. The unique identifier has been updated to REditorSupport.r. (#690)
• R in Visual Studio Code topic is added to the VS Code documentation.

New Features

• A new setting r.libPaths is added to support additional library paths to be appended to .libPaths() when R background processes (R language server and help server) are launched. It could be useful for projects with renv enabled where required packages (e.g. languageserver and jsonlite) to use vscode-R are only installed in other location. For more details, checkout the wiki. (#1071, #1097, #1098)

Enhancements

• The R package build task is separated into Build and Build Binary tasks. (#1029, thanks @Yunuuuu)
• Hide smart knit environment variables to prevent accidental deletion. (#1060)
• A new setting r.session.data.pageSize is added to support adjusting the page size of the data viewer. The default is now 500. (#1068)
• The check for languageserver package installation is improved and the prompt could be disabled. (#1071)
• The R Markdown code chunk snippet supports language choice. (#1082, thanks @jooyoungseo)
• It will prompt instead of showing empty choice when no R Markdown templates are found. (#1089)

Fixes

• Guard against evaluation of active bindings in the global environment. (#1038)
• The http prefix is unnecessary and removed from several code snippets. (#1084, #1085, thanks @jooyoungseo)
• R Markdown knit and preview scripts now use loadNamespace() instead of requireNamespace() to fail early if necessary packages are unavailable. (#1086)

Commits

• 1ebb8f2: add R package build task - build source and build binary like RStudio (#1029) (Yunuuuu) #1029
• 91e9c06: Use bindingIsActive (#1031) (Kun Ren) #1031
• b003a0e: Fix console err (#1034) (Kun Ren) #1034
• 6547330: guard against evaluation of active bindings (#1038) (Miles McBain) #1038
• dc9b33a: Upgrade ag-grid-community to v27.1.0 (#1049) (Kun Ren) #1049
• 89e9633: Hide smart knit env values to prevent accidental deletion (#1060) (Elian H. Thiele-Evans) #1060
• 02cd835: Add r.session.data.pageSize (#1068) (Kun Ren) #1068
• 672d5e3: Bump ansi-regex from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 (#1070) (dependabot[bot]) #1070
• 9029ddd: Bump minimist from 1.2.5 to 1.2.6 (#1069) (dependabot[bot]) #1069
• d7f769b: Update rGitignore.ts (Kun Ren)
• 626aac8: Add lsp settings to support disabling prompt and additional libPaths (#1071) (Kun Ren) #1071
• 3a0351e: More choices for code chunk snippet (#1082) (JooYoung Seo) #1082
• 6280d58: Take out http (#1084) (JooYoung Seo) #1084
• f32c3c7: Take out http from link snippet (#1085) (JooYoung Seo) #1085
• f463b82: Bump cross-fetch from 3.1.4 to 3.1.5 (#1087) (dependabot[bot]) #1087
• 79be43a: Bump ejs from 3.1.6 to 3.1.7 (#1088) (dependabot[bot]) #1088
• 4296e32: Use loadNamespace (#1086) (Kun Ren) #1086
• a46d910: Prompt when no templates found (#1089) (Kun Ren) #1089
• af5ef98: Update publisher id (#1093) (Kun Ren) #1093
• 539838a: R language server and help supports additional libPaths (#1097) (Kun Ren) #1097
• 449b1f0: Move r.libPaths in setting (Kun Ren)
• be8e92f: Fix lintr complain (Kun Ren)
• c183639: Update r.libPaths (#1098) (Kun Ren) #1098
• 0a41494: release 2.5.0 (Kun Ren)