Microsoft announced the General Availability of R Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio 2015 (RTVS). Also, the company gave a hint that the users will soon be able to use R Tools for Visual Studio 2017 too.
Shahrokh Mortazavi , Partner Director of Program Management at Microsoft, states,
“I’m delighted to announce the General Availability of R Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio 2015 (RTVS). This release will be shortly followed by R Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio 2017 in early May. RTVS is a free and open source plug-in that turns Visual Studio into a powerful and productive R development environment.”