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 is perfectly willing to work with any file that you want to add to your solution -- you just have to tell it what editor to use.

But before we do that, we need to install the Python Extension in VS Code. To do so, open Visual Studio Code and click on the Extensions icon.

If your version of Visual Studio isn't doing that for you, you can still get that IntelliSense support in your code by adding a reference to that other JavaScript file. A typical reference to another ...