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Upgraded R but RTVS points to old version

I'm using R Tools for Visual Studio (RTVS version 1.0.30321.1407) in Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2015 (version 14.0.25431.01 Update 3). I've been using R version 3.3.1, but today I installed R version 3.4.0.

My RStudio was smart enough to now point to the new version of R, but my RTVS is still pointing to the old one.

How do I get RTVS to point to the latest version of R?

Addendum: The solution is not to simply uninstall the old R from my machine. That just makes Visual Studio hang for what seems like forever upon startup.

Solution

  • The answer, it turns out, is to get the latest version (1.1) of RTVS because this is a known bug as discussed here.

    It's not obvious where to download it from, but I found it here.