My R only shows console and nothing else

[claradeng]

Hi Everyone, I am using version 3.5.2 on my macbook and for some reason it only shows console and nothing else now. What can I do?

[andresrcs]

This is not clear, are you talking about R-GUI or RStudio? Have in mind that they are two very different things.

Differentiating R from RStudio

Aside: goals for this thread

I'm hoping this will help people disambiguate R from RStudio, and also help with getting questions in the right category. This is a bit of a mashup of the times I've tried to explain this in individual threads, so please feel free to add to this topic for further clarification/point out corrections, etc.

Before putting a code-related question in the #rstudio-ide category or using the rstudio tag, it's helpful to ask yourself: Does this work in the regular R GUI, but not when you're in RStudio? If you're using RStudio, you're using R — RStudio is just an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) in which you are using the R language. (On of my favourite fi…

[claradeng]

I am using R for Mac OS X GUI

[andresrcs]

Could you share a screen shot of what are you seen and explain what are you expecting to see?
R-GUI is basically just a console, unlike rstudio that is an IDE.

[claradeng]

It seems I can only post one image here. The one below is what I could see in the past which has four windows, but now I can only use the console part. I don't know why this is happening because I am using the same application on my laptop.

[andresrcs]

I can't see any image in your post, but what confuses me the most is that you are saying

@claradeng

I am using R for Mac OS X GUI

And it appears that you are expecting to see the rstudio IDE instead.

For rstudio to work you need to install suitable versions of both, R and rstudio from this links.

https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/

Posit

[claradeng]

Hi!
I think the reason is for some reason Rstudio that I downloaded before was not operating on my laptop yesterday. I really appreciated your help! many thanks : )