[Radian in VS Code] Cannot find R client (i.e. radian)

[xiapingz]

Hi guys,

I am using VS code for R in a remote UNIX environment. I was trying to use radian as a default R terminal thru the following settings.

However, I kept getting this error message below.

"radian" is installed within the conda environment, 'r'. But somehow vs code couldn't locate it.

Does anyone have any clues? Thanks a lot!

[randy3k]

I think you might need to activate the conda environment. It is prone to error anyway, if you install R within an conda environment. I suggest you install radian in a global environment.

[xiapingz]

I think you might need to activate the conda environment. It is prone to error anyway, if you install R within an conda environment. I suggest you install radian in a global environment.

Thanks for your reply, @randy3k ! I am on a slurm cluster. I tried installing radian within the global environment (using the system default python and R). But the installation was redirected as message shows:

Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable

So the radian executive is at

/home/usr/.local/bin/radian

which is still not able to be launched.

The error message from VS Code is

The terminal process "/home/usr/.local/bin/radian '--no-save', '--no-restore'" failed to launch (exit code: 1).

Any ideas on it?

Best, X.

[MiguelRodo]

I had the same problem even when not using miniconda and using pip when installing radian for just the user, despite setting r.rterm.linux to the user-specific radian package (and despite running /home/usr/.local/bin/radian in the terminal working). Installing radian system-wide worked, though, but obviously not an option on the HPC (well, the sysadmin could).

If you search for r.rterm.linux in this repo's issues, you get the following issues that seem related: #341 and #334.

I don't have in-depth knowledge at all of this situation, but it seems like the R extension for VSC is ignoring r.rterm.linux. If that's true, then this isn't a radian issue.

[randy3k]

@xiapingz What errors do you see when you run /home/usr/.local/bin/radian in the terminal.

[xiapingz]

@xiapingz What errors do you see when you run /home/usr/.local/bin/radian in the terminal.

Hi @randy3k , if I simply run /home/usr/.local/bin/radian in the terminal, the radian will prompt out normally. The issue is that it couldn't be attached to VS Code's R workspace.

[xiapingz]

I had the same problem even when not using miniconda and using pip when installing radian for just the user, despite setting r.rterm.linux to the user-specific radian package (and despite running /home/usr/.local/bin/radian in the terminal working). Installing radian system-wide worked, though, but obviously not an option on the HPC (well, the sysadmin could).

If you search for r.rterm.linux in this repo's issues, you get the following issues that seem related: #341 and #334.

I don't have in-depth knowledge at all of this situation, but it seems like the R extension for VSC is ignoring r.rterm.linux. If that's true, then this isn't a radian issue.

Hi @MiguelRodo , if I set r.rterm.linux as my system R executive, it works perfectly, and while radian doesn't. If you are on HPC, before running any R codes, did you activate your system wide R, using something like module load R?

[MiguelRodo]

Hi @xiapingz - interesting to know! I hadn't tried r.rterm.linux as system-wide R.

On the HPC, I just used a singularity container and didn't use the VSC R extension, so this issue only arose for me in WSL. But since I'm admin, I just installed radian system-wide.

[WhySeeYC]

I did exactly what @MiguelRodo did installing radian system-wide with pip3. And when I run which radian , it shows /usr/local/bin/radian . I tried to set this as the workspace setting "r.path" in vs code and the same error message showed The terminal process "/home/usr/local/bin/radian '--no-save', '--no-restore'" failed to launch (exit code: 1).

May I ask is there a way to change where radian is installed? I saw tutorials from previous experts, the path seems to need to look like /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/bin/radian Appreciated if this can be solved, thanks a lot.

I am running on a MacOS 12.6 Python version 3.10 VS code version 1.72.1

[psobolewskiPhD]

@WhySeeYC Can you confirm that you can launch radian fine from the terminal and it runs properly? Also in VS Code settings, it's r.rterm.mac that needs to point to the radian binary. This is what is launched in vscode. And you need to ensure that you have the bracketedPaste checked/True. r.rpath.mac needs to point to your actual R binary (which R)

[WhySeeYC]

@psobolewskiPhD Thank you 😃. And yes, I can confirm that when running radian in the terminal (without user setting), radian can run properly. However, if I were to write script in the editor and execute them with cmd return , the default R interactive window will be used by vs code.

I set the r.rpath.mac with result fromwhich R, and r.rterm.mac with result from which radian , and the error message showed The terminal process "/home/usr/local/bin/radian '--no-save', '--no-restore'" failed to launch (exit code: 1). Really appreciate some help 🙏🏻

[psobolewskiPhD]

Hmm, that error is suggesting that vscode is looking for radian in /home/usr/local/bin/radian so maybe you have some duplicated settings? You can use the View > Command Palette > to do: Preferences: Open User Settings (JSON) This will open the actual file where your settings are stored. You can double check that there's no duplicate entries for those above. Also make sure you have "r.bracketedPaste": true,

[WhySeeYC]

@psobolewskiPhD thank you again. Yes I double checked the settings.json file and there were only one set of settings. I tried to uninstall and re-install radian and the terminal message printed that the requirement already satisfied(as below). do you think it could be because there are multiple radian installed?

Collecting radian
  Using cached radian-0.6.4-py3-none-any.whl
Requirement already satisfied: rchitect<0.4.0,>=0.3.39 in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from radian) (0.3.39)
Requirement already satisfied: pygments>=2.5.0 in ./Library/Python/3.10/lib/python/site-packages (from radian) (2.13.0)
Requirement already satisfied: prompt-toolkit<3.1,>=3.0.15 in ./Library/Python/3.10/lib/python/site-packages (from radian) (3.0.31)
Requirement already satisfied: wcwidth in ./Library/Python/3.10/lib/python/site-packages (from prompt-toolkit<3.1,>=3.0.15->radian) (0.2.5)
Requirement already satisfied: cffi>=1.10.0 in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from rchitect<0.4.0,>=0.3.39->radian) (1.15.1)
Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.9.0 in ./Library/Python/3.10/lib/python/site-packages (from rchitect<0.4.0,>=0.3.39->radian) (1.16.0)
Requirement already satisfied: pycparser in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from cffi>=1.10.0->rchitect<0.4.0,>=0.3.39->radian) (2.21)
Installing collected packages: radian
Successfully installed radian-0.6.4

P.S. I also double checked the VS Code-R Extension's suggestion on radian installation for mac and it does seem that the usual which radian path is /usr/local/bin/radian

[psobolewskiPhD]

Those messages are telling you that things that radian requires are already present, which makes sense because you had radian installed already. If which radian works and you can launch radian from the Terminal by just typing radian then the install is fine and it's an issue with the VS Code settings.

Maybe to sanity check, type alias in your Terminal to make sure you don't have some alias changing something? and maybe try: ls -al /usr/local/bin/radian and ls -al /home/usr/local/bin/radian

[WhySeeYC]

Thank you so much @psobolewskiPhD, I check the alias with the first command ls -al /usr/local/bin/radian and it returns -rwxr-xr-x 1 myusername admin 230 20 Oct 10:15 /usr/local/bin/radian, I believe this means that I only have one set of radian that is installed in this path /usr/local/bin/radian. Is that correct? 🙏🏻 Super grateful for all the help, will continue finding solutions for the vs code setting. If there is a solution, please also let me know 🙏🏻

[psobolewskiPhD]

Yes, your ls -al /usr/local/bin/radian output is correct, showing that radian binary is there and executable. Are you still getting the same error from VS Code about /home/usr/... If so, can you post the output of: ls -al /home/usr/local/bin/radian

[WhySeeYC]

@psobolewskiPhD thanks and yes, so the output of ls -al /home/usr/local/bin/radian is ls: /home/usr/local/bin/radian: No such file or directory. I can confirmed that the vs code terminal out put is still the same as the exit code 1: The terminal process "/usr/local/bin/radian '--no-save', '--no-restore'" terminated with exit code: 1. This was with vscode settings:

 "r.rpath.mac": "/usr/local/bin/R",
 "r.rterm.mac": "/usr/local/bin/radian"

[psobolewskiPhD]

@WhySeeYC Can you look at that JSON again and search for rterm.option? Here's what I have:

"r.rterm.option": [
        "--no-save",
        "--no-restore",
        "--r-binary=/usr/local/bin/R"
    ],

I suspect that the last line there --r-binary is either missing or not set properly to point to your R install.

[WhySeeYC]

Hi @psobolewskiPhD Thank you so much!!!! so I did not have the "--r-binary=/usr/local/bin/R" as the option and I set it up, it works fine now 🎉 Thank you so so much! so the current setting is

 "r.rpath.mac": "/usr/local/bin/R",
    "r.rterm.mac": "/usr/local/bin/radian",
    "r.rterm.option": [
        "--no-save",
        "--no-restore",
        "--r-binary=/usr/local/bin/R"]

[psobolewskiPhD]

Awesome! Glad we got it sorted. Sorry it took so long! BTW You'll want to have "r.bracketedPaste": true, also if you don't already.

[WhySeeYC]

@psobolewskiPhD thank you for reminding, just added that now. May I ask what does the --no-save, --no-restore, and --r-binary = /usr/local/bin/R imply? Thank you 🙏🏻

[psobolewskiPhD]

May I ask what does the --no-save, --no-restore, and --r-binary = /usr/local/bin/R imply? Thank you

I have no idea 🤣 Perhaps a better question for the vscode-r repo?

[LulinS]

@psobolewskiPhD Thank you so much! Your suggestion also helped me. I spent tons of time to figure out the issue!

[chrisoswald]

I had also th problem with "cannot find R client". I have radian installed on ~/.local/bin/radian and it was not found. I have changed the path of rterm in vscode in /home/user/.local/bin/radian and it's running.

[Yiminnn]

finally got solution, error message pop up real quick said can't determine r home, I added "r.rterm.option": ["--r-binary=/home/xxx/miniconda3/bin/R"], and finally worked

[kunkun1qaz]

I also have this problem. But I am working on windows.
here's my rterm option I have changed it but it still doesn't function