R Tools client: couldn't create connection to server. Launching server using command dotnet failed. Error: spawn dotnet ENOENT

Question

When trying to use the plot function in an R notebook on visual studio, nothing is shown and I obtain the following error:

[Error - 6:53:47 PM] R Tools client: couldn't create connection to server.
Launching server using command dotnet failed. Error: spawn dotnet ENOENT 

These are the loaded libraries: library(ggplot2) library(TOSTER) library(effectsize) library(lme4) library(e1071) library(lmerTest) library(moments) library(influence.ME) library(Rmisc) library(emmeans) library(tidyr) library(reshape2) library(plotly) library(data.table) library(dplyr) library(psych) # corr.test

Do you know where the problem could come from?

Thank you very much in advance,

Elena

Duro

Answer 1

I think that the problem is caused by the instalation of Rtools, that overwrites the configuration of R.

To fix this go to your settings,

Ctrl-Shift-P >>> Preferences: Open keyboard shortcuts, and remove this configration r.executeInTerminal that's the one of Rtools.

Then it should work.

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Answer 2

R and R Tools are both R extensions for VS Code, it has keyboard shortcuts confliction, so the solution should be just pick one and delete another. Or, you'd better change keyboard shortcuts resulting errors, like r.runSelection and r.executeinTerminal which use 'enter + shift' both. You can easily replace one with something different.

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