Hi there
I can compile your example without any tweaks, hence could not reproduce any error.
cheers
Heinrich
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R version 4.2.0 (2022-04-22) -- "Vigorous Calisthenics"
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Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
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> svg("/Users/hp/filename.svg");
> plot(rnorm(200));
> dev.off()
null device
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% !TEX program = lmtx
\starttext
\externalfigure[/Users/hp/filename.svg][conversion=mp]
\stoptext
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