Package development is supported by vscode-R, R language server, and R debugger.

vscode-R mainly provides the mostly used package development commands:

Keyboard shortcuts could be bound to these commands. See Creating keybindings for R commands.

The R language server loads all R documents in ./R if it detects a NAMESPACE file in the workspace root folder, which indicates that the workspace contains an R package. Therefore, all these R files are considered in the same workspace, sharing completions, definitions, references, and other workspace-level language features.

The R debugger supports debugging the package code in the current workspace. See Debugging R packages for more details.