If you’re an R programmer hoping to try GitHub Copilot, you’ll need to use Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code. Here’s how to set up and use VS Code for R.

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight IDE from Microsoft for developers to write code in a variety of languages like Python, PHP and more. It has inbuilt support for Git as well.

GitHub announced a raft of improvements to its Copilot AI in the Visual Studio Code editor, including a new 'agent mode' in preview that lets developers use the AI technology to write code faster and ...