R Tools for Visual Studio

In recent months, I’ve been brushing up my R skills. I’ve had a few areas of interest in this:

* R in Azure Machine Learning

* R in relation to Power BI and general analytics

* R embedded (somewhat) in SQL Server 2016

As a client tool, I’ve been using RStudio. It’s been good and very simple but it’s a completely separate environment. So I was excited when I saw there was to be a preview of new R tooling for Visual Studio.

I’ve been using a pre-release version of R Tools for Visual Studio for a short while but I’ve already come to quite like it. It’s great to have this embedded directly within Visual Studio. I can do everything that I used to do in RStudio but really like the level of Intellisense, etc. that I pick up when I’m working in R Tools for Visual Studio.

So today I was pleased to see the announcement that these tools have gone public. You’ll find more info here in today’s post from Shahrokh Mortazavi in the Azure Machine Learning blog: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/machinelearning/2016/03/09/announcing-r-tools-for-visual-studio-2/

2016-03-10