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.

Just, open the store, search for “Visual Studio Code”, and then click on Get. If you have downloaded the exe file, you need to run the installer to install it.

At this point, code-server will always be running, even if the system reboots. And that’s how you can serve up an instance of Visual Studio Code over your network.

This article is a step by step guide on how to download & install Visual Studio Code, along with details about its different channels.