R 4.4.2 Not responding / RStudio Takes too long to open

[gisela2631]

Hey everyone,

I updated R and RStudio today, because RStudio wasn't working well (took way too long to start, like 10 minutes or more) and I didn't have the latest version of R (so I updated it too). FYI: I opened it today after a few months, last time I used it worked perfectly.

RStudio is even slower now.
I opened R, and it takes even longer (as soon as I opened it, "Not responding" shows and it's impossible to do anything).

After about 20 mins, I was able to finally use R, and ran this in the console, to clear the environment:

rm(list=ls())

And it worked (I ran ls() and the result was 0).
But the problem persists.

I also read that firewall can be an issue, but I fixed that and it didn't solve anything.

So, if anyone has a suggestion, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks

G.

[gisela2631]

Update: I tried uninstalling both R and RStudio and installing previous versions (R-4.4.0 / RStudio-2024.04.0-735). Nothing changed.

[gisela2631]

Solved
Turns out it was slow because it was loading a lot of data from previous projects. I unchecked a few things in RStudio global settings (see image), closed, and reopened. It took seconds.