Implement shared R workspace in VS Live Share

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Following our recent post and @ivelasq’s tweet trialing VS Code and VS Live Share for remote pair programming in R, one of the features we hoped could be implemented in vscode-R is a shared R workspace across host and guest(s) sessions in VS Live Share.

Describe the solution you’d like Implementation of a shared R workspace while using VS Live Share. Per the issue I filed in the VS Live Share repository, this could be implemented using the VS Live Share Extension API.

Describe alternatives you’ve considered Currently the host and guest(s) have separate R workspaces. This is useful behavior when host and guest(s) are inspecting the codebase and objects separately. However, sometimes to debug a problem it is useful for users to inspect the object(s) in one another’s R workspace directly.

Additional context I initially filed an issue here and was directed to this repository as a shared R workspace is considered custom extension behavior.

[ElianHugh]

View() works based on UUID now 😃

[ElianHugh]

So, good news, the live share implementation seems to be working across computers! At present, the workspace viewer is functioning, with just a few things to iron out!

The implementation is no doubt going to need a little more work and polish for release, but the rough skeleton is working 😃 We also have to wait for api access as mentioned above, but hopefully that gets sorted!