You might have missed one significant bit of news tucked into yesterday's Microsoft R announcement: R is coming to Visual Studio:
R Tools for Visual Studio (RTVS) follows the model of Python Tools for Visual Studio: it's an open-source plug-in to Visual Studio that makes it a complete IDE for R, with syntax-aware editing, a command-line REPL, and interactive debugging. (Like PTVS, there will be a GitHub repo for RTVS when it's ready for release.)
Of course, RStudio already has excellent capabilities for developing R code, and RTVS isn't available — yet. But if you already develop in Visual Studio, or want to develop R code alongside C++, JavaScript, Python or any language supported by Visual Studio, send an email to RTVS-Invite@Microsoft.com to sign up for early access to RTVS.
Fantastic! Does it support R markdown in Visual Studio?
Posted by: Frank Wu | January 13, 2016 at 09:48
An excellent intro to RTVS! I agree, whilst it is a close clone to the RStudio IDE at this point in time, I deem RTVS will immediately be more familiar and easy to accustom to for a broad user base right from the beginning.
The feature I liked the most is the Jupyther mode.
I suggest rmarkup+knitr should be available, plus some formatting document templates provided from the 1st (RTM) release.
Posted by: Arthur | January 16, 2016 at 17:41
Very much useful session
Posted by: Mounika | January 18, 2016 at 01:14
Agreed. Looks like RStudio clone. Looking forward to see better integration with .net framework
Posted by: Harshang | January 19, 2016 at 05:45