Diagnosing a non-responsive RStudio console

[kevinushey]

@hughparsonage: Sorry to be coming back to this so late, but is there any chance this could be related?

RStudio suddenly slow processing

Sure, it's Rstudio that's the slow one for me. I get a really long spinner on the package pane when it tries to list packages. It get really long spinner when I try to check for package updates (the three dots on the Update Packages screen) or try to close Rstudio. It hits some projects a lot harder than others. The only fix I have found is to add the processes Rterm.exe, rsession.exe, rstudio.exe, git.exe to the list of Windows Defender Exclusions.

If you have Windows Defender running, can you try disabling it temporarily to see if that helps?