Note that GitHub Copilot isn’t optimized for R; the documentation says Copilot works “especially well” for Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Go, C#, and C++. However, Copilot does make R code ...

Visual Studio Code by Microsoft is arguably one of the best IDEs for coders. It supports multiple languages and has a plethora of extensions that you can install on top of a feature-rich coding setup.

Choosing between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio may depend as much on your work style as on the language support and features you need. Here’s how to decide. For decades, when I got to work in ...