Add live updates for the R data explorer #283
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This change adds live updating to the R data explorer backend (like Python already has).
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Addresses posit-dev/positron#2386.
The approach is pretty simple:
Note that we only support live updates for cases where we know name of the variable containing the data and the environment it lives in. Also note that we don't gracefully handle the case where a variable is replaced with something that is not a data frame or matrix; in this case we need to close the comm. That's tracked in posit-dev/positron#2333.
I've also added some integration tests that run against the new functionality.