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.

Just, open the store, search for “Visual Studio Code”, and then click on Get. If you have downloaded the exe file, you need to run the installer to install it.

This article is a step by step guide on how to download & install Visual Studio Code, along with details about its different channels.