Multiple R instances upon start-up

[erex]

On a Windows 11 machine, when opening RStudio
RStudio 2024.09.1+394 "Cranberry Hibiscus" Release (a1fe401fc08c232d470278d1bc362d05d79753d9, 2024-11-03) for windows
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) RStudio/2024.09.1+394 Chrome/124.0.6367.243 Electron/30.4.0 Safari/537.36, Quarto 1.6.38 (C:/Program Files/Quarto/bin/quarto.exe)

console contains following information after (what seems) a long start-up time, without any keystrokes on my part:

[prubin]

You might want to try resetting RStudio's state and see if that causes it to sober up.

[erex]

I think that did the trick. Only a single start-up message from R.

Slightly jarring to open RStudio to not see a bunch of tabs filled with scripts and Quarto documents of various flavours I've been working with, but I think I can find all those bits and pieces.

[prubin]

If you backed up the directory contents, you can try restoring portions and see if the problem remains resolved. That would get back some (most?) of your normal routine.

[kevinushey]

I think you may be bumping into this issue: R starts twice when opening Rstudio · Issue #6907 · rstudio/rstudio · GitHub

Fortunately, the issue should otherwise be harmless, as per R starts twice when opening Rstudio · Issue #6907 · rstudio/rstudio · GitHub.