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.

The plan offers 2000 code completions and 50 chat requests per month, as well as access to the GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet models. GitHub promises continuous improvement through new AI features.

Believe it or not you can use Microsoft's Visual Studio Code from your web browser, or at least, versions of it.

The original AI-powered code completion tool stemming from early OpenAI technology, GitHub Copilot, now comes in a free tier for the Visual Studio IDE and Visual Studio Code, along with other editors.

GitHub Copilot is an OpenAI-powered Visual Studio Code extension that can suggest lines of code or entire functions as you type.