[help] tar_make() doesn't show any color in RStudio console

[Rekyt]

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Hi there,
I'm having a very similar issue to #302
Namely that tar_make() doesn't show any output in colors in the RStudio console.

I thought it was an issue with my platform or my RStudio config but it seems to be targets only issue as I managed to get syntax coloring with usethis (see the screenshot below):

I've checked the environment variables or the cli options but nothing has been set so targets should display the workflow in colors.
I've also try adding options(crayon.enabled = TRUE) at the beginning of the _targets.R file, and it doesn't change the result.

What would cause such a difference in behavior between targets and other packages?

Thanks!

[wlandau]

The red text comes from how RStudio and callr handle colors, c.f. rstudio/rstudio#2574 and r-lib/cli#467. So it is outside the control of targets and would need to be addressed in one or both of those other tools.