From 9db7df4fdca7522fc9cb51cdf70e4a8e454336d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tomasz Kalinowski <tomasz@posit.co>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 11:44:27 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] allow disabling; fail quietly.

---
 R/zzz.R | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/R/zzz.R b/R/zzz.R
index ff70ab84c..593cf90bb 100644
--- a/R/zzz.R
+++ b/R/zzz.R
@@ -65,8 +65,12 @@
 
     setHook("reticulate.onPyInit", function() {
 
+      disable <- nzchar(Sys.getenv("_RETICULATE_POSITRON_DISABLE_VARIABLE_INSPECTORS_"))
+      if (disable)
+        return()
+
       # options("ark.testing" = TRUE)
-      inspectors <- import_positron_ipykernel_inspectors()
+      inspectors <- tryCatch(import_positron_ipykernel_inspectors(), error = function(e) NULL)
       if(is.null(inspectors)) {
         # warning("positron_ipykernel.inspectors could not be found, variables pane support for Python objects will be limited")
         return()