DataStep Studio for R Install
Documentation · version 0.10.3

Get started

DataStep Studio for R runs in VS Code and Positron and keeps one R session for you, the editor and the tools. Plan five minutes for the first run.

From nothing to your first run

  1. R and NodeR 4.4 or later with Rscript on the PATH, and Node.js 18 or later for the dsr command.
  2. Install the extensionVS Code: Extensions, search DataStep Studio for R, Install. Positron, Cursor, VSCodium: the .vsix file with Extensions: Install from VSIX.
  3. Start the sessionOpen a folder with R code, then the play button in the DataStep R view. A missing R package is named with its install command; dsr doctor checks everything.
  4. RunOpen an R file, press Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Enter: the log in the R Console. Chapter 1

In VS Code the walkthrough Get started with DataStep Studio for R on the Welcome page shows the same steps.

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The manualA chapter per feature with a tutorial: the log, the suspicious log, the data viewer, the debugger, pry, trace and the pipe debugger, format, autocomplete, coverage, batch runs and the clinical checks, agents. How-to guideShort recipes: run only what changed, find why a value is wrong, the step that loses records, a table against the CSR. The dsr commandsEvery tool of the command line with its own help: the reference for you and for agents. Set up an agentClaude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot: the MCP server, the CLI, results as data. PrivacyWhat talks to what, and how that was checked. What's newWhat changed in each version.