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Run Selection can't handle multi line strings #1313
Description
Describe the bug
When trying to submit the following code snippet only the first line gets submitted (i.e. just the x <- "
x <- "
a
"For reference Rstudio seems to submit the whole chunk
To Reproduce
- Create a new file
- Enter the above snippet
- Place cursor infront of the x
- try submitting via ctrl+enter
Can you fix this issue by yourself? (We appreciate the help)
No (sorry)
Expected behavior
The whole string gets submitted
Environment (please complete the following information):
- OS: macOS
- VSCode Version: 1.75.1
- R Version: 4.2.2
- vscode-R version: v2.7.1
Activity
github-actions commentedon Mar 1, 2024
This issue is stale because it has been open for 365 days with no activity.
gowerc commentedon Mar 1, 2024
Not stale
ml-crowe commentedon May 16, 2024
I am running into this same issue.
davidmasp commentedon Jun 11, 2024
me too
R version 4.1.2R vs code
v2.8.4vscode
1.90.0davidmasp commentedon Jun 11, 2024
Might be related to this? #731
There they say that another R extension for VS code is messing up this behavior.
I can confirm that when running with the command palette works fine but I don't have any other R extension mentioned in the other issue
davidmasp commentedon Jun 11, 2024
okay so i figure it out, I had the same shortcut to send code to the terminal for all file types, basically I used it for bash, when resetting that shortcut it started to work again.
The
cmd+Entershortcut is quite populated so it was a bit hard to find. You can also manually change the shortcut for@command:r.runSelectionto anything w/o collisions. For completeness, I think my conflict was coming from@command:workbench.action.terminal.runSelectedText +when:terminalProcessSupportedthat I manually set some time ago.ThomasSoeiro commentedon Sep 27, 2026
@eitsupi @Fred-Wu @grantmcdermott Is this something we can work around? Perhaps it can be added to a milestone? (I'm probably biased, since this bug keeps bothering me regularly…)
eitsupi commentedon Sep 27, 2026
Incidentally, I believe arf console achieves this by using tree-shitter to determine if it's a complete R expression before executing it.
I think the same thing could probably be done here, but I don't think I'll be doing the implementation myself, so contributions from anyone willing to do so are welcome.
Fred-Wu commentedon Sep 27, 2026
One workaround is to use
r"()", but can only submit as a whole at the closing quote.