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.

Believe it or not you can use Microsoft's Visual Studio Code from your web browser, or at least, versions of it.

GitHub has unveiled a new free plan for GitHub Copilot in VS Code, which is available immediately and only requires a GitHub account , according to the announcement post.

GitHub Codespaces give you and your team a VS Code development environment as part of your repository, along with threaded discussions.

As expected following its recent purchase of GitHub, Microsoft's flagship Visual Studio IDE is seeing stronger integrations with the development platform and open source code repository.