`languageserver.formatting_style` in VSCode settings (not only options in `.Rprofile`)

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I encountered the same issue on Windows as described in REditorSupport/languageserver#503. It is not that trivial to figure out in what directory the “languageserver” was started and put the formatter/.Rprofile in the proper location.

Describe the solution you’d like Is there a way to set this in vscode-r settings (i.e., “r.lsp.formatting_style”)? Maybe like for the knitr command.

[eitsupi]

Unfortunately, the home directory on Windows is not the root directory of the user, i.e., C:\Users\mcanouil\Documents for R.

This is really hard to find but I believe it will be changed in R 4.2.0 to be released this month.

It would be way easier to have it in VSCode settings especially for cross platform access (e.g., settings sync) instead of having to create .Rprofile on every local/remote containers/servers/computers.

Wouldn’t languageserver.formatting_style be difficult to represent this in json (VSCode’s configuration file is json, just in case) since this is essentially R code? Instead, it seems to me that it would be better to change the styler’s settings so that they can be defined from the configuration file (r-lib/styler#319) and use those settings. In fact, linting by languageserver uses the lintr’s configuration file (.lintr).

[mcanouil]

My bad, the issue is from the languageserver repository REditorSupport/languageserver#503