R Tools for Visual Studio (RTVS) is a
plug-in for the
Microsoft Visual Studio integrated development environment
An integrated development environment (IDE) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development. An IDE normally consists of at least a source code editor, build automation tools ...
(IDE), used to provide support for programming in the language
R. It supports
IntelliSense
Intelligent code completion is a context-aware code completion feature in some programming environments that speeds up the process of coding applications by reducing typos and other common mistakes. Attempts at this are usually done through auto- ...
, debugging, plotting, remote execution, SQL integration, and more. It is distributed as
free and open-source software under the
Apache License 2.0, and is developed mainly by
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washin ...
.
The first version released was 0.3 on March 5, 2016, and the current (version 1.0) was released in 2017. However, the project is described as "not actively supported" since February 2019.
See also
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R interfaces
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Python Tools for Visual Studio
Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) is a free and open-source plug-in for versions of Visual Studio up to VS 2015 providing support for programming in Python. Since VS 2017, it is integrated in VS and called Python Support in Visual Studio. It ...
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Software using the Apache license
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