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.

And that’s how you can serve up an instance of Visual Studio Code over your network. It’s a bit of a franken-solution, but it works really well. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto ...

To do so, open Terminal in Visual Studio Code, and run the following command. ollama pull deepseek-coder:1.3b. This will run and install the DeepSeek-R1. 5] Use DeepSeek in Visual Studio Code.

A more full-featured way to use Visual Studio Code from the browser is with code-server, or the Coder service built upon it. Coder isn't free, though there is a 60-day trial, and it isn't limited ...

After fulfilling developer demand for an integrated terminal within the Visual Studio Code editor, Microsoft has continued to incrementally improve the feature, boosting its performance by up to 45 ...