usethis::edit_r_profile() doesn't launch .Rprofile

[brndngrhm]

typing usethis::edit_r_profile() doesn't open my Rprofile, instead it seems like its maybe waiting for me to do something then times out. I loved the feature in R studio to launch my Rprofile or R environment for quick edits, can this be incorporated into positron too?

[juliasilge]

Hmmmm, I can't reproduce this problem as usethis::edit_r_profile() works for me as expected. It looks like you are using or have in the past used the VSCode-R extension. That extension is not compatible with Positron, as we outline here. Can you check if that extension is installed, or if you have code somewhere that may be calling that extension? Double check that any code you have in your .Rprofile that is designed to support that extension is updated so that it does not run in Positron:

if (interactive() && Sys.getenv("RSTUDIO") == "" && Sys.getenv("POSITRON") == "") {
  ## code you use for better terminal behavior for R in VS Code
}

[brndngrhm]

thanks! my Rprofile had this in there, which i think was some config for VS code? probably something i set up when i started using VSCode and forgot about.

 if (interactive() && Sys.getenv("RSTUDIO") == "") {
   source(file.path(Sys.getenv(if (.Platform$OS.type == "windows") "USERPROFILE" else "HOME"), ".vscode-R", "init.R"))
 }

I commented it out and restarted and now usethis::edit_r_profile() works in positron