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 in the browser using code-server (Image credit: Coder) A more full-featured way to use Visual Studio Code from the browser is with code-server, or the Coder service built upon it.

At this point, code-server will always be running, even if the system reboots. And that’s how you can serve up an instance of Visual Studio Code over your network.