Unfortunately, setting up Visual Studio Code to work ... see the How to set up VS Code for R video tutorial for easy instructions on how to install Python for use with R and RStudio.

Visual Studio Code viewing the source code for itself. Note the messages (created using information from the Git repository) that show the authors of the functions and the most recent change dates.

I use VS Code for my Visual Studio Magazine articles and have customized my environment to do this in HTML files, but I've always wanted quick-hit macros to automate tedious tasks. That's "quick hit" ...

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