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.

And that’s how you can serve up an instance of Visual Studio Code over your network. It’s a bit of a franken-solution, but it works really well. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto ...

To run the VS Code AI Mode, you need to open a code file. It could be anything, including PHP, JS, Java, C#, or anything else. Then, select a piece of line of code and press Ctrl+Alt+I .