`View()` sidebar workspace viewer/panel fails to render

[ptr-64]

Describe the bug R View() panel fails to render objects

To Reproduce It works for some data frames/ plots and not others

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Install R VS-Code extension
2. open an R file
3. View() an R data frame, either by calling View(object) from the attached R console, or by using the sidebar
4. the viewer stays empty

Do you want to fix by self? (We hope your help!)

No- due to lack of experience with electron or js

(If yes,) what kind of help do you want? (e.g. Which file should I fix, Survey (related documents)

Expected behavior The sidebar should render the R object

Screenshots

Environment (please complete the following information):

• OS: macOS 12.5.1
• VSCode Version: 1.71.2
• R Version: 4.2.1
• vscode-R version: 2.5.3 (from the marketplace)

Additional context I basically ran into the same issue as in here I tried to delete my settings.json, and even reinstall vs-code (from homebrew).

[ptr-64]

output of ls.str(.vsc)

[renkun-ken]

Does View() ever work for any input (e.g. View(mtcars)) or it never works in your setup?

[joaofpugliese]

Hi, bumping this up. It has recently not worked for me too. I had to reinstall Vscode and R because of a problem with Python, and it just stopped working. Neither View() nor help (e.g. ?apply) are working -- neither View(mtcars).

Not entirely sure if related, but also browsing pop-ups (e.g. when authenticating BigQuery keys) also stopped working.

Plus, not sure if this helps, but it seems like the command runs -- View() on large datasets keeps running for quite a while before not returning the pop-up.

I am uploading the output of ls.str(.vsc) like the guy above output of ls.str(.vsc).txt

[ptr-64]

Does View() ever work for any input (e.g. View(mtcars)) or it never works in your setup?

Sorry I didn't reply. I thought my thread was dead. To answer your question, View(mtcars) works in a fresh session but quickly stops working if I load a dataframe. Based on my limited experimentation, trying to View() any dataframe bigger than 40MB causes the sidebar to stop rendering.