Announcing R Tools for Visual Studio

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Post by brettcannon » Wed, Mar 09, 2016, 5:29 PM UTC

Announcing R Tools for Visual Studio
blogs.technet.microsoft.com

Re: Announcing R Tools for Visual Studio

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Post by myth_drannon » Wed, Mar 09, 2016, 5:52 PM UTC

Looks like a promising alternative to Rstudio on a Windows platform. If only it was available on Linux...

Re: Announcing R Tools for Visual Studio

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Post by reddygaru » Wed, Mar 09, 2016, 5:53 PM UTC

myth_drannon wrote: post #2

Looks like a promising alternative to Rstudio on a Windows platform. If only it was available on Linux...

Visual Studio will be coming to Linux

Re: Announcing R Tools for Visual Studio

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Post by stevehiehn » Wed, Mar 09, 2016, 5:53 PM UTC

Sweet, If this works on the free community edition I'm gonna try it for sure.

Re: Announcing R Tools for Visual Studio

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Post by smortaz » Wed, Mar 09, 2016, 5:54 PM UTC

myth_drannon wrote: post #2

Looks like a promising alternative to Rstudio on a Windows platform. If only it was available on Linux...

Team lead here - yep, we'd love to do a VSCode/R version as well. If you want to lend a voice, take our R IDE survery and upvote that question:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RTVS1

Re: Announcing R Tools for Visual Studio

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Post by smortaz » Wed, Mar 09, 2016, 5:56 PM UTC

stevehiehn wrote: post #4

Sweet, If this works on the free community edition I'm gonna try it for sure.

It definitely does! In fact with the Community Edition it becomes a perpetually free R IDE.

edit: see gnoway's comment below tho.

Re: Announcing R Tools for Visual Studio

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Post by tyfon » Wed, Mar 09, 2016, 5:56 PM UTC

I got to test this tomorrow at work, however loading up a huge program instead of a web page where all the stuff is stored on a server is going to require some changes in behavior.

And I usually work from Linux, so it will be in a VM. But I'll try :)

Re: Announcing R Tools for Visual Studio

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Post by gnoway » Wed, Mar 09, 2016, 6:07 PM UTC

smortaz wrote: post #6

stevehiehn wrote: post #4

Sweet, If this works on the free community edition I'm gonna try it for sure.

It definitely does! In fact with the Community Edition it becomes a perpetually free R IDE. edit: see gnoway's comment below tho.

* For personal use, or organizationally for academic purposes, classroom learning and open source projects only. Or if your company has https://www.visualstudio.com/support/legal/mt171547

Re: Announcing R Tools for Visual Studio

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Post by smortaz » Wed, Mar 09, 2016, 6:08 PM UTC

Hi folks - Last year we polled HN on whether there'd be interest in R integration in Visual Studio. You said "YES!", so here it is! I'll be around in case you have any questions.

BTW RTVS was built by the same group that made PTVS (Python Tools for VS) and NTVS (Node.js Tools for VS). RTVS will also be free & open source of course.

Cheers

Re: Announcing R Tools for Visual Studio

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Post by smortaz » Wed, Mar 09, 2016, 6:11 PM UTC

gnoway wrote: post #8

smortaz wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It definitely does! In fact with the Community Edition it becomes a perpetually free R IDE. edit: see gnoway's comment below tho.

* For personal use, or organizationally for academic purposes, classroom learning and open source projects only. Or if your company has https://www.visualstudio.com/support/legal/mt171547

Correct, CE version has restrictions. It's great for checking out RTVS to decide if you want to upgrade to Pro/Enterprise.