L ike many developers, I used to think of VS Code primarily as a slick code editor – great for writing, debugging, and ...

VS Code’s settings can be a labyrinth to spelunk through and modify. It’s even less fun if you’re looking for the same settings time and again, to toggle them on or off depending on the case.

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.

The popularity of VS Code -- barely 2-1/2 years old -- has been further chronicled in many other venues, also. For example, in a recent PYPL ranking of IDEs, it came in at No. 11 despite being a code ...