Desperate for help with Rgui

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When I open the R.exe I get the Rterm environment instead of the Rgui. The Rterm looks a lot like a DOS window, and this behavior is very definitely unwanted.

So far I have tried:

  1. Asking for help on the web. I have tried those suggestions. (see below)

  2. Asking on Stack Overflow. A lot of reads, but no suggested answers.

  3. Uninstall and reinstall both R and Rstudio, twice each. Doesn't change anything, and Rstudio continues to work fine.

  4. Asking here, even though it is somewhat off topic. PLEASE HELP.

My first thought was to simply reboot the computer -- no help. Then I looked on the web. One suggestion was to delete R and reinstall it. I have uninstalled and reinstalled R and Rstudio, twice each. Another suggestion was to edit the profile, but my .Rprofile file is empty. I also saw a suggestion about editing environmental variables and deleting anything involving R, but I could not find anything relating to R.

The problem started when I accidentally tried to run reprex() in the Rgui instead of Rstudio. It gave me an unpleasant error message and closed the R session. But it left a Rterm window open. I closed that window separately.

I am having no problems with Rstudio, but sometimes I prefer to run a session in the Rgui.

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Have you tried running Rgui.exe?

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Bingo! Thanks ever so much.

Still wondering why I never had that problem before, but I won't lose sleep as long as your suggestion keeps working.

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