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.

Otherwise, Visual Studio Code will work in the context of an open folder or a Git repository, with the option of attaching its debugging tools to the console, so you can debug and test PowerShell ...