Good afternoon folks,
We're currently using the newest version of RStudio Desktop (2026.04.0+526) and R CRAN (4.6.0) on Windows 11 and, once again, experiencing a very unusual issue: after launching RStudio we're only seeing a blank homepage and all of the menu options (e.g., File, Edit, Code, etc.) are only showing (empty) as an option.
RStudio won't close normally: we have to force close it via the Task Manager. I've reset RStudio's state and already cleanly reinstalled both applications after subsequent reboots of the computer, but we're still seeing this blank homepage.
My thanks in advance for any assistance y'all can offer!
Sorry you're hitting this, unfortunately this doesn't give us much to go on, especially since you've already tried clearing the state.
Given you are using R 4.6.0, downgrading isn't an option; previous versions of RStudio don't support 4.6.0 (there were a LOT of low level changes to the API that we had to accomodate and those are in 2026.04 and newer.)
If you can, also give the latest daily build a try (also as a data point). Golden Wattle
Finally, please open an issue on Issues · rstudio/rstudio · GitHub with as much detail as you can, and we can try to work through it there.
Good afternoon guys,
Thanks for responding so quickly to this post: long story short, the affected user was able to get RStudio to launch correctly by opening an existing R (project) file. Weird stuff, but I appreciate the links to the dailies and GitHub for future use!