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.

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 ...