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.

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.

Installing Microsoft Visual Studio Code on Linux is a snap Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor April 5, 2019 at 7:28 a.m. PT Once upon a time Windows was Windows, Linux ...