My Rprofile for development in VSCode.

.Rprofile

# setting options
options(width = 80)

# we set the cloud mirror, which is "network-close" to everybody, as default
local({
  r <- getOption("repos")
  r["CRAN"] <- "https://cloud.r-project.org"
  options(repos = r)
})

# setup packages for development
if (interactive()) {
  if (Sys.getenv("TERM_PROGRAM") == "vscode") {
    # obtain list of packages in system library currently
    lib_packages <- names(utils::installed.packages()[, 3])

    if (!"remotes" %in% lib_packages) {
      message("installing remotes package")
      utils::install.packages("remotes")
    }

    if (!"renv" %in% lib_packages) {
      message("installing renv package")
      remotes::install_github("rstudio/[email protected]")
    }

    if (!"jsonlite" %in% lib_packages) {
      message("installing jsonlite package")
      remotes::install_github("jeroen/[email protected]")
    }

    if (!"rlang" %in% lib_packages) {
      message("installing rlang package")
      remotes::install_github("r-lib/[email protected]")
    }

    if (!"rstudioapi" %in% lib_packages) {
      message("installing rstudioapi package")
      remotes::install_github("rstudio/[email protected]")
    }

    if (!"vscDebugger" %in% lib_packages) {
      message("installing vscDebugger package")
      remotes::install_github("ManuelHentschel/[email protected]")
    }

    if (!"prompt" %in% lib_packages) {
      message("installing prompt package")
      remotes::install_github("gaborcsardi/[email protected]")
    }

    if (!"usethis" %in% lib_packages) {
      message("installing usethis package")
      remotes::install_github("r-lib/[email protected]")
    }

    if (!"devtools" %in% lib_packages) {
      message("installing devtools package")
      remotes::install_github("r-lib/[email protected]")
    }

    if (!"languageserver" %in% lib_packages) {
      message("installing languageserver package")
      remotes::install_github("REditorSupport/[email protected]")
    }

    if (!"languageserver" %in% lib_packages) {
      message("installing languageserver package")
      remotes::install_github("REditorSupport/[email protected]")
    }

    if (!"httpgd" %in% lib_packages) {
      message("installing httpgd package")
      remotes::install_github("nx10/httpgd")
    }

    options(vsc.rstudioapi = TRUE)
  }

  # attach R terminal to VSCode
  ifelse(
    .Platform$OS.type == "windows",
    "USERPROFILE",
    "HOME"
  ) |>
    Sys.getenv() |>
    file.path(
      ".vscode-R",
      "init.R"
    ) |>
    source()

  # Change console prompt line
  prompt::set_prompt(prompt::prompt_fancy)
}