Visual Studio Code is a free, lightweight but powerful source code editor that runs on your desktop and on the web and is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi OS.

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.

When the installation finishes, you should see a Docker icon in the left navigation — click that icon to reveal Docker is ready to be added to your Visual Studio Code workflow.