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Have you looked at the open source F# type provider for accessing R[1]? It's one way to use R from Visual Studio today.

[1] http://bluemountaincapital.github.io/FSharpRProvider/

Yes we've tried it, it's not as stable as plain vanilla R and it's not as powerful in terms of dev tools support (mostly productivity wise, might just be because we are used to them) as RStudio, Eclipse+StatET, Notepad++ w/custom language items.

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