visual studio code – How can I setup python and vscode to feel like RStudio?

Specifically, I am looking for the style of interactive code whereby I have a script, I have an interpreter/console, I have a window showing all my variables in memory, I have a window showing all my plots, etc. I can highlight a few lines of code and send it to the console to be executed.

Jupyter notebooks satisfy some of this interactive programming but the cells are annoying to me and (as far as I know) I cannot just highlight some code and execute it, I have to make a new cell and put the lines I want to execute there.

I seem to recall that Spyder does a pretty good job of providing the sort of experience I am looking for, but it was years ago that I used it.

I would like to achieve this in vscode because I write code in a variety of languages and I would like to have everything in the same ide.