Jan van der LaanMar 16
Adam H. Sparks 

I've written up a how-to for using arf and {terminalgraphics} in R.nvim. Glad I did. I discovered a few gotchas that I'd forgotten and now have them recorded and cleaned up my nvim config files at the same time.

So, now you can have the IDE console experience in R.nvim AND the graphics baked in, no X11 or {httpgd} windows to fuss with. The only catch is you have to use Kitty or Wezterm for your terminal emulator.

https://adamhsparks.netlify.app/2026/03/10/further-enhancing-r-nvim-with-arf-and-terminalgraphics/ cc @jimbob

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Further Enhancing R.nvim with Arf and {terminalgraphics}

How I Ended Up Using Neovim for R I never really imagined I’d be a Neovim user, but here I am. My first encounter with vi was back in the early 90s during an undergraduate computing course. We used elm as our email client, and writing a message launched vi. I could not make sense of it. When I repeated the course (yes, I failed it the first time), we switched to Pine, whose editor, similar to nano, felt far more intuitive.

Adam H. Sparks
Mar 15 at 8:44amWeb
Show threadAdam H. Sparks Mar 15
@jimbob once @eitsupi makes a new release that supports R’s flags, you probably don’t need to use the special path in kitty.conf as the shell installer’s default install path should be detected.
Show threadeitsupiMar 21
@adamhsparks @jimbob Released!
Show threadAdam H. Sparks Mar 21
@eitsupi @jimbob saw that! Been using my new setup with great pleasure
Show threaddanwwilson Mar 15
@adamhsparks @jimbob Bookmarked for later.
Show threadRyanMar 16
@adamhsparks @jimbob This looks great! Wish I saw it earlier in my weekend. I’ve been meaning to move from positron + vim motions to full neovim and I think this might just be the guidance I needed
Show threadAdam H. Sparks Mar 16
@ryanzomorrodi @jimbob heh, I was still drafting it earlier in the weekend. I didn't get it up until yesterday afternoon sometime.
Show threadGiuseppe CarlinoMar 18

@adamhsparks @ryanzomorrodi @jimbob If I may ask, is arf fully working with R.nvim?

In my experience, there are some issues, like sending a command spread across multiple lines does not work.

Show threadAdam H. Sparks Mar 18
@beps @ryanzomorrodi @jimbob I’ve not noticed that it’s any different then using radian, which did for quite a while.
Show threadGiuseppe CarlinoMar 18
@adamhsparks @ryanzomorrodi @jimbob Got it, I had to explicitly set `bracketed_paste = true` to make it work.
It was not necessary with the standard R console.
Show threadAdam H. Sparks Mar 18
@beps @ryanzomorrodi @jimbob That was my suspicion but I was on my phone and couldn’t remember the proper line.