Plot viewer not working with radian.

The issue When I use radian as my default R Plots stubbornly use X11, rather than showing up in VSCode.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Install languageserver package, then, vscode-R.
2. Install radian (with pip install -U radian).
3. Set to use radian as R to use"r.rterm.mac": "/usr/local/bin/radian"
4. Run “R: Create R terminal” to attach an R (radian) session.
5. Make a plot, e.g. plot(c(1, 2, 3), c(1, 3, 2))
6. The plot opens in X11 viewer, not inside VSCode.

If I repeat these steps from 3 on, but without setting radian as the rterm, then it works as expected (I get the PNG plot in the VSCode pane). How can I make this happen with radian too?

all my r setting.json settings:

"r.alwaysUseActiveTerminal": true,
"r.bracketedPaste": true,
"r.rterm.mac": "/usr/local/bin/radian",
"r.sessionWatcher": true,

my ~/.Rprofile is empty.

I have tried setting options(vsc.plot = TRUE) or “Two” in ~/.Rprofile, and also tried using httpgd (which is installed), by setting vsc.plot to FALSE, and adding "r.plot.useHttpgd": true, to the settings json. In both cases it seems to work fine with vanilla R (I can use httpgd with the latter setting), but with radian, I just get the X11 window for plots.

Expected behavior I expect the plot to appear as a PNG (or SVG with httpgd) in VSCode.

Environment

• OS: macOS 12.1 (x86)
• VSCode Version: Version: 1.64.0
• R Version: 4.1.0
• vscode-R version: 2.3.6

Thanks for the really great extension! I just want to get the plots working (ideally with httpgd and radian).

[renkun-ken]

If you start R from vscode terminal, then you need to follow https://github.com/REditorSupport/vscode-R/wiki/R-Session-watcher#advanced-usage-for-self-managed-r-sessions and put the following in your ~/.Rprofile:

source(file.path(Sys.getenv(
   if (.Platform$OS.type == "windows") "USERPROFILE" else "HOME"
 ), ".vscode-R", "init.R"))

[postylem]

I have moved to a new computer, with the following setup, and I do not have this problem anymore. The plots are now rendered in vscode, not X11, without me having to do anything.

• OS: macOS 12.4 (Apple silicon)
• VSCode Version: Version: 1.72.0-insider
• R Version: 4.1.2
• REditorSupport version: 2.5.3