Insert Roxygen Skeleton

In Rstudio you can insert a roxygen skeleton with the correct param tags via keybind (when the cursor is within a function definition) to create e.g. this:

#' Title
#'
#' @param x 
#'
#' @return
#' @export
#'
#' @examples
exported <- function(x) {
    x + 1
}

It would be a nice qol feature for package developers. I might look into this but I have yet to make the first steps with vsc extension development/ts and wanted to put the idea out here 😃

[assignUser]

@andycraig the use of Rstudio Addins sounds like a good solution for now 👍 !

[renkun-ken]

I guess this could be made much easier to implement if we define some customized requests in language server so that editor clients could query the information of the parsed data of the document at a document point (row, column). Otherwise, detecting the function arguments could be non-trivial in many cases when cursor is somewhere in the function, e.g., cursor at function formals vs. function body, complex function argument default value, cursor at closure in function, cursor at (raw?!) string literal in function.

Having access to the language client will make it much easier to implement customized language-related features such as this. Unfortunately, vscode-r-lsp and vscode-R are separate projects. I’m not sure if there’s a way to access the language client created in vscode-r-lsp unless we merge the two projects (#98) previously done at https://github.com/renkun-ken/vscode-R/tree/lsp.