Working in R with a conda environment #1210
Description
I'm working in a different conda environment for each of my projects and would like to have R launch within the correct environment when I cmd-enter on a line of R code (I'm using Mac OS X) so that I can use the R version and packages I have in my environment. I have figured out that if I install Microsoft's Python Extension and put ...
{
"python.defaultInterpreterPath": "~/opt/miniconda3/envs/env-01/"
}
in {workspace-directory}/.vscode/settings.json then when I start a new bash terminal, the first command it will run is conda activate env-01. Unfortunately, when I do this with R code (e.g. 2+2) in a file (e.g. practice.R), it launches a new terminal and the first R command it tries to run is conda activate env-01 followed by 2+2.
Here's what the output to the terminal looks like:
conda activate env-01
2+2
R version 4.2.1 (2022-06-23) -- "Funny-Looking Kid"
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> conda activate env-01
Error: unexpected symbol in "conda activate"
> 2+2
[1] 4
I'm not really excited about adding "r.alwaysUseActiveTerminal": true to my settings.json file (as suggested here) since I like the flexibility of being able to "just" create the R terminal by doing cmd-enter.
It seems like there should be a way to automatically run the conda activate <environment_name> before launching R for the first time when doing cmd-enter on a chunk of R code. Is there a setting I'm missing or would this be something that could easily be fixed?