Programatically launch the data viewer for specified dataframe

Hi folks,

One of the biggest RStudio time savers is the ability to open a dataframe (let’s say “df”) in the data viewer by simply typing View(df).

It would be incredibly handy to similarly have a python command which would do the same thing in VScode.

Thank you

[DonJayamanne]

To do this:

• You’ll need to create a custom IPython magic , such as %%showdataviewer xyz
• When you handle the magic, you can send back a response with some special text
• The Jupyter extension could monitor this special output and display the data frameviewer
  • Optionally you can try to use the widget framework and send custom messages via a custom channels (however that would require a bit more work).

Again, this is something you’ll have to do in Python as well as a custom copy of the Jupyter extension, and its not likely the solution we’d implement. (If we were to implement this within the product, one of the best ways to implement this in a generic manner would be for the Jupyter extension to dynamically register a magic if that’s at all possible).

[DonJayamanne]

Thanks for understanding, by the way, we do have a large number of users using .py files in Interactive window that use the Jupyter extension. Hopefully they’ll upvote this.