R Tutorials for VS Code

Browse and run R package tutorials directly from the VS Code sidebar.

Features

Activity Bar icon for quick access to all installed R tutorials
Tutorials grouped by package for easy browsing
Click the play button to run any tutorial directly
Automatically detects missing dependencies and offers to install them
Refresh button to update the tutorial list after installing new packages
Cross-platform: works on macOS, Linux, and Windows

Requirements

R installed
The learnr R package

On macOS and Linux, R is usually found automatically via PATH. On Windows, the extension reads R's install location from the Windows Registry (set during a default CRAN installation). If auto-detection fails, set the path manually in settings (see below).

Usage

Click the R Tutorials icon in the Activity Bar
Expand a package to see its tutorials
Use ⌥⌘F (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt+F (Windows/Linux) to filter
Click the arrow to the right of the tutorial name to run it

Settings

Setting	Default	Description
`rTutorials.rscriptPath`	`""` (auto-detect)	Path to the `Rscript` executable. Leave blank to auto-detect.

Examples:

macOS: /usr/local/bin/Rscript
Linux: /usr/bin/Rscript
Windows: C:\Program Files\R\R-4.4.0\bin\x64\Rscript.exe

Installation

To install from source:

git clone https://github.com/PPBDS/vscode-r-tutorials.git
cd vscode-r-tutorials
npm install
npm run compile

Then open the folder in VS Code and press F5 to test.

License

MIT

R Tutorials

Preceptor's Primer for Bayesian Data Science