R Tools for Visual Studio

R Tools for Visual Studio (RTVS) is a plug-in for the Microsoft Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE), used to provide support for programming in the language R. It supports IntelliSense, 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.^[2]

R Tools for Visual Studio (RTVS)

Developer(s)	Microsoft
Initial release	March 5, 2016; 9 years ago (2016-03-05)
Stable release	1.0 RC3 / March 10, 2017; 8 years ago (2017-03-10)[1]
Repository	github.com/microsoft/rtvs
Written in	C#, C++, R
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Available in	English
Type	Integrated development environment
License	Apache License 2.0
Website	visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/features/rtvs/

The first version released was 0.3 on March 5, 2016, and the current (version 1.0) was released in 2017.^[3] However, the project is described as "not actively supported" since February 2019.^[4]

See also

• R interfaces
• Python Tools for Visual Studio