Currently, VSCode-R launches the R LSP by itself internally.
While for simple use-cases it sounds fine, a more advance user would like to control the exact command that is being launched for creating the LSP.

For example, in our company, we launch our R sessions only on remote machines, trough SSH. Since the language server run an R session, we'd like to run the R LSP on a remote machine.
This is done simply by running the LSP launch command in SSH(in this case the connection with VSCode is by STDIO), assuming we could have a custom command modification for LSP.

Another example is when the user would like to tweak privately the language server somehow(or hypothetically run a total different language server), and needs to tweak how this VSCode extension starts the LSP.