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 do so, open Terminal in Visual Studio Code, and run the following command. ollama pull deepseek-coder:1.3b. This will run and install the DeepSeek-R1. 5] Use DeepSeek in Visual Studio Code.

Open your project file in VS Code, and click on Terminal > New Terminal. Now, run pwd in Terminal to know your path, it should be the path of your project folder.If it’s not, you need to run cd ...

Or open the Ubuntu Software app and search for “Visual Studio Code” by name. Alternatively, if you’re more comfortable at the command line, pop open your preferred terminal emulator (Ctrl + Alt + T) ...