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.

If you want to setup and use Deepseek-R1 in Visual Studio Code, follow the steps mentioned in this tutorial.

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

Microsoft has released a beta of its Visual Studio Code light-weight code editor, opening it up to extensions and open sourcing the product.