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.

It's simple, explained João Moreno, Microsoft Visual Studio Code Software Development Engineer, "The automatic update functionality of snaps is a major benefit.