Hi there, I've used RStudio for quite some time, and have been encountering the "R Won't Start" issue where the software opens but doesn't load, it just hangs with swirls, acknowledges that it's taking a while, and prompts to "reload" or "terminate". It's getting beyond frustrating.
Last night, I took the time to clean install R and RStudio multiple times, eventually finding a recommendation in these forums to move to an older version (2022.07.2+576), which worked. I was able to open RStudio and it worked fine - I was elated.
This morning, we were back to the issue. I had to clear the RStudio local app directory in order for it to start. There may have been a Windows Update overnight. I also had connected my VPN, though I've disconnected it and still have the same issue. I do not want to have to do this every time I work with RStudio. Any help anyone can offer is most welcome. Thank you, details below.
I've taken all of the steps outlined in the "RStudio Desktop IDE Will Not Start" guide (https://support.posit.co/hc/en-us/articles/200488508). I did a simple install, only have one version of R, and added RStudio to firewall permissions.
Windows Home 10
R version 4.3.1. (C:\Program Files\R)
RStudio 2022.07.2+576, "Spotted Wakerobin" (e7373ef8, 2022-09-06) for Windows
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) QtWebEngine/5.12.8 Chrome/69.0.3497.128 Safari/537.36
2023-10-05T16:16:45.135635Z [rsession-eli] WARNING Abort requested; LOGGED FROM: bool __cdecl rstudio::session::connection::checkForAbort(class rstudio_boost::shared_ptr,const class rstudio_boost::function<void __cdecl(void)>) C:\Users\jenkins\workspace\ide\open-source-pipeline\spotted-wakerobin\src\cpp\session\http\SessionHttpConnectionUtils.cpp:135
2023-10-05T16:25:09.890419Z [rsession-eli] WARNING Abort requested; LOGGED FROM: bool __cdecl rstudio::session::connection::checkForAbort(class rstudio_boost::shared_ptr,const class rstudio_boost::function<void __cdecl(void)>) C:\Users\jenkins\workspace\ide\open-source-pipeline\spotted-wakerobin\src\cpp\session\http\SessionHttpConnectionUtils.cpp:135
2023-10-05T16:25:09.890419Z [rsession-eli] WARNING Abort requested; LOGGED FROM: bool __cdecl rstudio::session::connection::checkForAbort(class rstudio_boost::shared_ptr,const class rstudio_boost::function<void __cdecl(void)>) C:\Users\jenkins\workspace\ide\open-source-pipeline\spotted-wakerobin\src\cpp\session\http\SessionHttpConnectionUtils.cpp:135