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.

Open Visual Studio Code and click on the CodeGPT icon from the left sidebar. Now, you need to click on the selected model, in my case, it was Claude-3.5-Sonnet.

A more full-featured way to use Visual Studio Code from the browser is with code-server, or the Coder service built upon it. Coder isn't free, though there is a 60-day trial, and it isn't limited ...

I use VS Code for my Visual Studio Magazine articles and have customized my environment to do this in HTML files, but I've always wanted quick-hit macros to automate tedious tasks. That's "quick hit" ...