Hi -- sorry for not being clear in my explanation! When I run:
which R
I get
/usr/local/bin/R
Which was one of the suggested troubleshooting steps in one of the threads I read, to make sure it wasn't being masked by something like Anaconda. I also wanted to try the steps here: Rstudio desktop freezes upon startup But I can't find those directories on my computer.
R itself works just fine. I am wondering if R studio is trying to restart from some previously saved workspace as the R terminal says: "Workspace restored from /Users/elisehickman/.RData." When I go to this folder, I have multile .RData files there - I think I'll try moving/deleting them and seeing what happens.