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Revolution's DevelopR is very similar to what you're describing--an IDE for R built on Visual Studio.

http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/revolution-r-enterprise-d...

actually that was a fork of PTVS :). we'll look at adding more advanced editing, intellisense, visualization, debugging (cross-lang, cross-OS, ...), etc.

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