@kupac @aRubes did yiu give a go to nvim-R https://github.com/R-nvim/R.nvim if yes what didn't you like?
#RStats Rainy Day Dev Diary
Progress on {zap} - bespoke serialization infrastructure for R
Writing to file a 255-level factor with 10% NAs. N = 10000 random values
* faster than writing uncompressed 'saveRDS()'
* more compressed than saveRDS('xz') (just by a smidge!)
* 10x faster than writing saveRDS(xz)