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		r0muald on March 9, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Announcing R Tools for Visual Studio Which kind of defeats the fact that RVTS is free and open source, but is still fundamentally understandable in terms of Microsoft's strategy in this area.

nightski on March 9, 2016 | [–]

It doesn't defeat the fact at all. The number of users who can now use it for free is much greater than before (zero).

smortaz on March 9, 2016 | [–]

Yes. Hopefully when/if we doe VSCode/R it'll be fully open source.

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