Chris Brown notes some changes:
I was doing some analysis work with R today (don’t get to do that very often anymore) and R wasn’t playing with VS Code nicely.
Turns out there has recently been a major update to the VS Code R editor extension.
So if you are having issues, check out the Extensions page for setup instructions.
Click through for some of the major changes and for some thoughts on Positron versus base VSCode. H/T R-Bloggers.