R Tools for Visual Studio (RTVS) is a

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for the

Microsoft Visual Studio Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It is used to develop computer programs including web site, websites, web apps, web services and mobile apps. Visual Studio uses Microsoft software development platfor ...

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 a ...

(IDE), used to provide support for programming in the language R. It supports

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, debugging, plotting, remote execution, SQL integration, and more. It is distributed as

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under the Apache License 2.0, and is developed mainly by

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. 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.

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* {{Microsoft FOSS Free and open-source software Integrated development environments Microsoft free software Software using the Apache license 2016 software Windows-only free software

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