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.

Visual Studio: Chat now supports using the Output Window as context. Developers can click to include build or debug logs in prompts, use #output, or right-click log lines and select "Explain with ...