I remove glmnet package, reload window, and hover/open help for glmnet::glmnet, and the help does not exist.

Then I install glmnet, the languageserver could instantly provide the documentation on hover but vscode-R help hover and open help for selection still does not work in this case.

Then I install glmnet, the languageserver could instantly provide the documentation on hover but vscode-R help hover and open help for selection still does not work in this case.

• Does reloading vscode fix this?
• Is the behavior the same if you install glmnet using the command Install CRAN Package?

Does reloading vscode fix this?

Yes, but the original issue seems to suggest that the package documentation should work instantly once the package is installed from either vscode command or in an R session?

Is the behavior the same if you install glmnet using the command Install CRAN Package?

There is no such problem if I install the package using the command. It only occurs if I install it via install.packages("glmnet") in an R terminal.

Yes, but the original issue seems to suggest that the package documentation should work instantly once the package is installed from either vscode command or in an R session?

Yes, that would be the "proper" solution, but is a bit harder to implement. Here I just changed a default config value to make sure that restarting vscode also completely restarts the help server.

In order to instantly work for packages installed using install.packages(), we need to check for new packages each time a hover is shown, which can be quite frequent. And e.g. during package development, the same package might be reinstalled with the same version-number but different help topics, which I guess could only be detected by refreshing the list of all aliases.

I'll remove the link to the issue, but as a first step we could still merge this PR.

Thanks for the details. Let's merge it for now.