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<p><em>by Shahrokh Mortazavi, Partner PM, Visual Studio Cloud Platform Tools at Microsoft</em></p>
<p>I’m delighted to announce the general availability of <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://microsoft.github.io/RTVS-docs/">R Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio 2015 (RTVS)</a>. This release will be shortly followed by R Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio 2017 in early May.</p>
<p>RTVS is a free and open source plug-in that turns Visual Studio into a powerful and productive R development environment. Check out <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcSDEfMgUvU">this video</a> for a quick tour of its core features:</p>
<p><iframe height="281" allowfullscreen="" width="450" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RcSDEfMgUvU"></iframe></p>
<h2>Core IDE Features</h2>
<p>RTVS builds on Visual Studio, which means you get numerous features for free: from using multiple languages to word-class Editing and Debugging to over 7,000 extensions for every need:</p>
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<li><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://microsoft.github.io/RTVS-docs/polyglot.html">A polyglot IDE</a> – VS supports R, Python, C++, C#, Node.js, SQL, etc. projects simultaneously.</li>
<li><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://microsoft.github.io/RTVS-docs/editing.html">Editor</a> – complete editing experience for R scripts and functions, including detachable/tabbed windows, syntax highlighting, and much more.</li>
<li><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://microsoft.github.io/RTVS-docs/intellisense.html">IntelliSense</a> – (aka auto-completion) available in both the editor and the Interactive R window.</li>
<li><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://microsoft.github.io/RTVS-docs/interactive-repl.html">R Interactive Window</a> – work with the R console directly from within Visual Studio.</li>
<li><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://microsoft.github.io/RTVS-docs/history.html">History window</a> – view, search, select previous commands and send to the Interactive window.</li>
<li><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://microsoft.github.io/RTVS-docs/variable-explorer.html">Variable Explorer</a> – drill into your R data structures and examine their values.</li>
<li><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://microsoft.github.io/RTVS-docs/plotting.html">Plotting</a> – see all of your R plots in a Visual Studio tool window.</li>
<li><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://microsoft.github.io/RTVS-docs/debugging.html">Debugging</a> – breakpoints, stepping, watch windows, call stacks and more.</li>
<li><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://microsoft.github.io/RTVS-docs/rmarkdown.html">R Markdown</a> – R Markdown/knitr support with export to Word and HTML.</li>
<li><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://microsoft.github.io/RTVS-docs/git.html">Git</a> – source code control via Git and GitHub.</li>
<li><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://microsoft.github.io/RTVS-docs/extensions.html">Extensions</a> – over 7,000 Extensions covering a wide spectrum from Data to Languages to Productivity.</li>
<li><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://microsoft.github.io/RTVS-docs/help.html">Help</a> – use ? and ?? to view R documentation within Visual Studio.</li>
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<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://revolution-computing.typepad.com/.a/6a010534b1db25970b01bb0986bf01970d-pi"><img title="RTVS1" alt="RTVS1" src="http://revolution-computing.typepad.com/.a/6a010534b1db25970b01bb0986bf01970d-800wi" border="0"></a></p>
<h2>It’s Enterprise-Grade</h2>
<p>RTVS includes various features that address the needs of individual as well as Data Science teams, for example:</p>
<h3>SQL Server 2016</h3>
<p>RTVS integrates with <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt604845.aspx">SQL Server 2016 R Services</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/mt186501.aspx">SQL Server Tools for Visual Studio 2015</a>. These separate downloads enhance RTVS with support for syntax coloring and Intellisense, <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://microsoft.github.io/RTVS-docs/sqlserver.html">interactive queries</a>, and deployment of <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://microsoft.github.io/RTVS-docs/sqlserver.html">stored procedures</a> directly from Visual Studio.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://revolution-computing.typepad.com/.a/6a010534b1db25970b01bb0986bf14970d-pi"><img title="RTVS2" alt="RTVS2" src="http://revolution-computing.typepad.com/.a/6a010534b1db25970b01bb0986bf14970d-800wi" border="0"></a></p>
<h3>Microsoft R Client</h3>
<p>Use the stock CRAN R interpreter, or the enhanced Microsoft R Client and its <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-r/scaler-getting-started">ScaleR</a> functions that support multi-core and cluster computing for practicing data science at scale.</p>
<h3>Visual Studio Team Services</h3>
<p>Integrated support for git, continuous integration, agile tools, release management, testing, reporting, bug and work-item tracking through <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.visualstudio.com/vso/">Visual Studio Team Services</a>. Use our hosted service or host it yourself privately.</p>
<h3>Remoting</h3>
<p>Whether it’s data governance, security, or running large jobs on a powerful server, RTVS <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://microsoft.github.io/RTVS-docs/remote-execution.html">workspaces</a> enable setting up your own R server or connecting to one in the cloud.</p>
<h2>The road ahead</h2>
<p>We’re very excited to officially bring another language to the Visual Studio family!  Along with <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/python/">Python Tools for Visual Studio</a>, you have the two main languages for tackling most any analytics and ML related challenge.  In the near future (~May), we’ll release RTVS for Visual Studio 2017 as well. We’ll also resurrect the “Data Science workload” in VS2017 which gives you R, Python, F# and all their respective package distros in one convenient install. Beyond that, we’re looking forward to hearing from you on what features we should focus on next! R package development? Mixed R+C debugging? Model deployment? VS Code/R for cross-platform development? Let us know at the <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/Microsoft/RTVS">RTVS Github repository</a>!</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p><strong>Bits</strong>: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://microsoft.github.io/RTVS-docs/installation">http://microsoft.github.io/RTVS-docs/installation<br></a><strong>Code</strong>: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/Microsoft/RTVS">https://github.com/Microsoft/RTVS<br></a><strong>Docs</strong>: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://microsoft.github.io/RTVS-docs">http://microsoft.github.io/RTVS-docs</a></p>
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