Run Selection can't handle multi line strings

[gowerc]

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

[github-actions]

This issue is stale because it has been open for 365 days with no activity.

[gowerc]

Not stale

[ml-crowe]

I am running into this same issue.

[davidmasp]

me too

R version 4.1.2
R vs code v2.8.4
vscode 1.90.0

[davidmasp]

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]

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+Enter shortcut is quite populated so it was a bit hard to find. You can also manually change the shortcut for @command:r.runSelection to anything w/o collisions. For completeness, I think my conflict was coming from @command:workbench.action.terminal.runSelectedText +when:terminalProcessSupported that I manually set some time ago.

[ThomasSoeiro]

@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]

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]

One workaround is to use r"()", but can only submit as a whole at the closing quote.

test <- r"(
 hello
)"