For a few months I have been encountering an issue on multiple different computers and across different versions of R where none of the interactive windows from the utils package and base R are displaying correctly. The functions where this occurs is choose.files, askYesNo, and file.choose (first 2 from the Utils package and 3rd is base).
The reason I believe it is RStudio based is that the only thing that I have found that works temporarily is to go into C:\Users\AppData\Local\ and delete the RStudio folder.
Windows 10 Installed RAM 32.0 GB (31.7 GB usable) System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
RStudio Build: 2023.06.0 Build 421
platform x86_64-w64-mingw32
arch x86_64
os mingw32
crt ucrt
system x86_64, mingw32
status
major 4
minor 3.1
year 2023
month 06
day 16
svn rev 84548
language R
version.string R version 4.3.1 (2023-06-16 ucrt)
nickname Beagle Scouts
Does it also happen when starting R from Rgui or the command line?
Are all the computers where this happens running Windows 10? Were they updated at the same time? Do you have your specific version of Windows, when exactly the problem started, and the latest updates you made?
If you open Windows Update, you should find a version number (e.g. 22H2), and you should have a button called "Update History" (or something similar) to see when the latest updates were installed. For the exact same problem to happen on multiple computers, I would suspect an update to Windows 10 that was installed on all these computers at about the same time.
The problem does not happen in the RGui. But still occurs in the RStudio Command Line.
As for versions they are all running Windows 10. My personal and work computer both have version is 22H2 and both are not working and continue to break often after implementing the temporary fix. I encountered this issue very early on before many of my colleagues had it so I did not record the date.
One of my other colleagues has Version 21H2, he encountered the issue July 7th and implemented the fix of deleting the RStudio folder and has not re-encountered the issue. IT apparently hasn't updated his pc since 2022...interesting
One of my other colleagues has Version 22H2, he encountered the issue July 5th and implemented the fix of deleting the RStudio folder and has had intermittent re-occurrences.
One of my other colleagues has an early Version 22H2, she encountered the issue July 5th and implemented the fix of deleting the RStudio folder and has had intermittent re-occurrences.
One of my other colleagues has Version 21H1, he encountered the issue after recently installing RStudio so it is impossible to tell when it first occured and implemented the fix of deleting the RStudio folder and has had intermittent re-occurrences.
I initially thought maybe it was something with our work computers, however my personal PC is also having issues.
