change file association in vscode if code chunk not detected

  • For first time setup for VS Code to run R Markdown, change the files association to enable it to run rmd file in code block chunks (like in R Studio)

    • Sometimes you may also need to do this after certain VS Code update. Possibly due to some settings being reset
    • Steps
      • (Command Palette > Preferences: Open User Settings (JSON))
      • Text Editor > Files
      • change "*.rmd": "markdown" to "*.rmd": "rmd"

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[!quote]- Stack Overflow post on how to fix I hope you resolved this by now, but just in case - I too had been happily using *.Rmd with VS Code, but not for a while, and the chunks were no longer recognised as R - or chunks.

I had been using r-lsp, which once flagged as deprecated, so I just got rid of it, in a gung-ho cull…

Now moving to vscode-R, I found I had to change the files.associations in VSCode's settings.json (Ctrl+Shift+P > Preferences: Open User Settings (JSON)) from the previous value:

  "files.associations": {
    "*.rmd": "markdown"
  },

to

  "files.associations": {
    "*.Rmd": "rmd"
  }

Maybe it was always wrong! Details in the vscode-R wiki, here, https://github.com/REditorSupport/vscode-R/wiki/R-Markdown.

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