After more than a year in preview R Tools for Visual Studio, the open-source extension to the Visual Studio IDE for R programming, is nearing its official release. RTVS Release Candidate 2 1 is now available for download, giving you the opportunity to try out the new features ahead of the official announcement. We'll cover the features in detail with the general availability release of RTVS 1.0, but in summary the new features include: Remote Execution: type R code in your local RTVS instance, but have the computations performed on a remote R server. You can also switch between local...