languageserver

0.3.18

Language Server Protocol

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298.5Kdownloads / year

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13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Randy LaiFirst published 2018-03-0130 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

An implementation of the Language Server Protocol for R. The Language Server protocol is used by an editor client to integrate features like auto completion. See https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/ for details.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("languageserver", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("REditorSupport/languageserver")

Development version from REditorSupport/languageserver. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-languageserver

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-languageserver

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.6 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ reditorsupport/languageserver

673Stars

117Forks

129Open issues

2Open PRs

13Releases

1,727Commits

37Contributors

rlanguage-server-protocol

1,727 commits · Last activity 2026-07-17 · +0.7% stars, 30d

Repository practices

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7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (15)

callr collections digest fs (>= 1.3.1)jsonlite lintrparallelR6 (>= 2.4.1)roxygen2 stringi styler (>= 1.5.1)toolsutilsxml2 xmlparsedata

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

covr magrittr mockery pacman processx purrr testthat (>= 2.1.0)withr rmarkdown stringr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

0indirect

FastRet artma box.lsp framework toscutil

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Randy Lai

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Randy Lai

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Kun Ren

Contributor · added in 0.3.4

Package Timeline

30 releases. R releases are shown for context.

0.3.18Latest
2026-05-03 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.17
2026-03-07 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.3.16
2023-08-18 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.3.15
2023-01-06 · diff ↗
0.3.14
2022-10-16 · diff ↗
0.3.13
2022-05-24 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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2021-10-19 · diff ↗
0.3.11
2021-07-22 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2021-04-20 · diff ↗
0.3.9
2020-12-18 · diff ↗

Show 26 earlier events

unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-12-18
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-12-16
check problems were not corrected in time
0.3.8
2020-12-01 · diff ↗
0.3.7
2020-09-15 · diff ↗
0.3.6
2020-05-25 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2020-03-22 · diff ↗
0.3.4
2020-02-24 · diff ↗
0.3.3
2020-01-08 · diff ↗
0.3.2
2019-10-26 · diff ↗
0.3.1
2019-09-27 · diff ↗
0.3.0
2019-09-09 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2019-03-28 · diff ↗
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2019-03-26 · diff ↗
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2019-03-07 · diff ↗
0.2.6
2019-02-24 · diff ↗
0.2.5
2018-09-11 · diff ↗
0.2.4
2018-08-27 · diff ↗
0.2.3
2018-06-16 · diff ↗
0.2.2
2018-05-09 · diff ↗
0.2.1
2018-04-24 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2018-04-24 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.1.0
2018-03-01
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2018-03-01
Total releases: 30 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 108 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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