I have just installed the latest versions of R (3.1.0) and Rstudio (v0.98.507) on a Windows 7 machine, 64 bit.
The R GUI works OK, but when I open the RStudio.exe only a blank window opens. I've tried re-installing R and RStudio.
Any suggestions?
By choosing the R version I wanted to use I was able to use Rstudio again.
To choose the R version you want to use with Rstudio do the following;
Click the CTRL key (don't let go)
Click on the Rstudio icon
Choose the version you want in the pop-up window.
For Ubuntu users where #neal's solution doesn't work.
$ rstudio --no-sandbox
related to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/1944468
Download the 64bit version and reinstall it.
The same for Linux
FOR LINUX: this happens to me on cloud instances. A solution is forcing software rendering of RStudio. You need to start RStudio, get to the black screen, close Rstudio black screen, do my solution below in the terminal with Rstudio closed, then start Rstudio again.
In terminal:
sudo nano ~/.config/RStudio/desktop.ini
APPEND THE FOLLWING TO [General] section (leave whatever is there and add the line below):
[General]
desktop.renderingEngine=software
Again this is for Linux, but there may be a similar issue in Windows and you may be able to force software rendering.
Press down Ctrl key and then click on RStudio icon to launch. A dialog box asks you about the R version. Choose the one that actually exists (you might see an R version which does not exist; confusing RStudio)
For Windows10 64bit.
After following the hold Ctrl and clicking RStudio icon.
Change the Rendering Engine: to Software.
This fixed the problem on my machine.
Related
When I double click an R script (.R file) in order to open and edit it, nothing happens.
I expect it to open it in either R or RStudio but it doesn't.
I found a similar (old) question (Opening a .R file via a double click (Windows)) but the solution doesn't work for me.
I have tried:
- right-clicking and explicitly telling it to open it with RStudio
- set it as the default program to associate with this file type
- drag the script into RStudio
Anyone any idea whether it is Windows or R(Studio) related?
Running:
Windows 10 Pro
R version 3.6.1
RStudio version 1.2.1335
As the first comment suggest, it is likely a problem occuring while installing R or Rstudio. This would most likely be fixed by reinstalling Rstudio. If it doesnt i'd suggest checking out this Rstudio question.
Basically, you can manually create using the command prompt (start -> "cmd" -> enter), using
assoc .R=rfile
Ftype rfile="C:\Program Files\RStudio\bin\rstudio.exe" %1
changing the rstudio directory to the correct directory for your computer.
A less command-prompty solution might be available by following the steps described in this guide. However i did not test the latter approach.
I installed a new version of R but rstudio still uses the old version. The command "which R" is just a shell script and I'm not sure how to get rstudio and the new version of R integrated. R base installed in /usr/share/doc.
Any tips?
Thanks,
Bob
See the RStudio support pages. In particular, for Linux, you have to set the RSTUDIO_WHICH_R environment variable.
As found out in the comments, you're on a Linux system, specifically Linux Mint 17. I can see three basic scenarios here:
You want to ensure RStudio uses a specific version of R when you are launching RStudio from the terminal as a one-time event.
You want to ensure RStudio uses a specific version of R every time you launch RStudio from the terminal.
You want RStudio to use a specific version of R when you launch RStudio from the applications menu (or, equivalently, via something like Synapse).
They are dealt with in turn below. I assume throughout that the path to the R binary you want RStudio to use is /opt/R/3.1.0/bin/R, which you should change as appropriate.
One-time Terminal Launch
After opening a terminal via Ctrl-Alt-T, run
export RSTUDIO_WHICH_R=/opt/R/3.1.0/bin/R
Then, anytime you launch RStudio from the terminal via the rstudio command in that terminal session, it will use the specified R version. However, after you exit, the next time you open the terminal, it will no longer respect that choice.
Every Terminal Launch
Use your favorite text editor to edit the file ~/.bashrc. At the end, on a new line, add
export RSTUDIO_WHICH_R=/opt/R/3.1.0/bin/R
Then, either launch the terminal, or if you already have it open run the command source .bashrc. Then, you can launch RStudio via the command rstudio and it will use the version of R you want.
Launching from the Applications Menu
Use your favorite text editor to edit the file ~/.profile. At the end, on a new line, add
export RSTUDIO_WHICH_R=/opt/R/3.1.0/bin/R
Then you need to log out of your system and log back in. After that, anytime you launch RStudio from the application menu, it will use the specified R version.
I am unable to open my Atom Editor. It was working fine until yesterday, but don't know why it won't open today. No windows update or anything on my computer. I tried deleting the 'Storage' folder as mentioned in some online forums, doesn't help. Any suggestions? I am using Atom version 1.19.6.0.
If you're using MAC OS and have similar problem, try this:
Open Window tab
and then click Zoom.
Atom will sometime fail to open because of a bad configuration-file.
To better diagnose this on Windows (10), try running atom from a CMD window:
Open the task-manager and kill any instance of Atom that is listed there
Open a Command-window -
Ctrl+Esc > (type "command") > Enter
Go to where Atom is installed -
cd %USERPROFILE%/AppData/Local/atom/app-*
Run Atom -
atom.exe
If you see an error message at this point, it should help identify the problem.
If still not clear, you can try moving the main configuration-file,
which is in a different folder:
cd %USERPROFILE%/.atom/
rename config.cson config.SAVE.cson
Go to where Atom is installed (again) -
cd %USERPROFILE%/AppData/Local/atom/app-*
Run Atom -
atom.exe
Based on this answer on the Atom forum:
https://discuss.atom.io/t/atom-will-not-open-windows/47489
I experienced this issue when my Atom windows all suddenly resized to be so small I could not see or find them anywhere (some weird glitch with opening it from a full-screen window on an external display). I resolved it by command-tabbing (I think it's ctrl-tab on Windows, I forget) to my open atom application to bring up the application's menu bar, and then selecting Window > Zoom from the menu.
I am using Atom on Windows 10 64-bit, and had similar problems of installation and not running later.
You can do the following:
Empty Trash, and Temp and Prefetch folders.
Change the security and read only properties of the temp folder.
IMP > Disable antivirus and run atom it will work, later add the Atom app to exclusion list of your antivirus.
Open the task-manager and kill any instance of Atom that is listed there
Got to where Atom installed : Mine:> C:\Users\%userprofile%\AppData\Local\atom
See this Image
Go to Folder indicated in the picture and find atom.exe by scrolling through the folder and open it and make a shortcut to desktop and it will work.
I found that mv command is not builtin Windows cmd as suggested by Gonen. So following the idea of Gonen, a working solution can also be like:
In windows explorer type %USERPROFILE%/.atom/, or manually go to the path
(in my case): C:\Users\hussainazhar.atom. Of course, go to your drive path accordingly. Close Atom application if already opened.
Simply rename the config.cson to config.SAVE.cson
Open up the Atom and now you can go to the settings :)
All you simply need to do is go the main directly where the file is located and open the FIRST folder.
After opening it, there you will see atom file, double click on it and it will be opened successfully.
The atom Window is just minimized, it gives the impression of not openning, but it is actually opening, again is just minimized.
I was able to see the atom interface, by maximizing the window using the keyboard:
on windows, it normally is Alt+SpaceBar+x.
I was using my own laptop to install R and I found that it only has one library. Evne though this library is still read only, everytime when I use Rstudio: install.packages("abc"), I can see that the new packages are stored automatically into that read only library folder.
In my office's desktop, I "believe" I also have administrator role, as I can install and remove anything (by far). I download the latest version of R and I right click the R-3.4.1-win.exe, there is an item "run as administrator", then it is installed in my desktop. However, when I use R studio to install new packages as in my laptop, it always automatically create a personal folder to store the new packages. I don't know why. Is that a way to only have one folder for library? I also tried on the desktop in the plain R mode (without using Rstudio). When I want to install new packages, it always says
Warning in install.packages("devtools") :
'lib = "C:/Program Files/R/R-3.4.1/library"' is not writable
And there is a window pops up to ask me "would you like to create a personal folder?" And if I say no, then
Error in install.packages("devtools") : unable to install packages.
Is there a ways to solve this problem? To just maintain one folder for library
What version of Windows are you using? You should be able to right-click on the Rstudio.exe icon, click Properties, and select an option to always run Rstudio as administrator. Be sure you use that same icon whenever you want to open Rstudio.
Incase of Mac, go to Applications, then right click on RStudio and
Select "Show Package Contents"
Go to Contents/MacOS
Now open terminal(in bash mode). Type sudo and drag the RStudio.exec into terminal and press on ENTER
Now RStudio will have admin access!
For completeness, I think there should be an Ubuntu answer to go along with the Microsoft and Apple answers. (Note:I'm using 18.06, and not 20.x.)
What doesn't work:
On my Ubuntu/Linux system, when Rstudio is installed the call start RStudio from a terminal looks something like the following:
(base) username#sysname:~$ rstudio
It starts, but has the permissions of the user, and can have access errors.
What gives admin power:
To give it better permissions, you can use sudo.
(base) username#sysname:~$ sudo rstudio
[sudo] password for username: <enter password here>
It starts in a different user location, but has more power. After it is installed you can run it the regular way and the packages are still installed.
Extra credit:
Here are some (currently) relevant links for RStudio on Ubuntu:
https://linuxhint.com/rstudio-for-ubuntu/
https://www.r-bloggers.com/2013/03/download-and-install-r-in-ubuntu/
What is the command to invoke RStudio from Command Line in linux environment?
http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~gulzar/rstudio/index.html
When I start RStudio, none of the windows inside the main frame come up, and none of the menu options display menu options when clicked. It's just an blank page.
It feels like some kind of graphics rendering or window management problem.
I'm running Windows 7. I have the latest version of R, which is 3.1.1. I have the latest RStudio, which is 98.1062.
How to fix it?
Reset the RStudio state. Do this:
Close RStudio if open.
Go to this directory: %localappdata%\RStudio-Desktop
Rename that directory as a type of backup.
Start RStudio.
RStudio will see the configuration directory is missing and regenerate it with correct values.
Everything should work after that.
Other threads I found helpful here are:
https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/200534577-Resetting-RStudio-s-State
https://support.rstudio.com/hc/communities/public/questions/200666647-RStudio-096-16-Windows-7-gives-empty-screen?locale=en-us
Thanks!
Renaming the RStudio state by renaming %localappdata%\RStudio-Desktop did not work for me. However i made it work by renaming another config folder in %appdata% instead.
Close RStudio
Go to this directory: %appdata%\RStudio
Rename the folder
Restart RStudio
I faced the same issue when I downgraded my version of R.
I did try the above solutions. However, it didn't work for me.
After some googling, I found out that the issue was because now I had a different version of R installed. Here's how you can choose the version of R and rectify the issue.
Navigate to the RStudio installation folder. (C:\Program Files\RStudio\bin)
Press and hold Control Key
Double click on rstudio.exe
Choose a specific version of R (whichever you want to work with)
Click OK and RStudio should open without any issues.
NB: I use 64bit Windows 8.1.
I had the same issue and I almost gave up about solving it but then I found a suggestion that GitHub might be the problem. I am not sure how that is happening but the minute I uninstalled GitHub and re-launched Rstudio, it worked perfectly as nothing happened!? Here is the link for where I found the suggestion on Rstudio community page: (https://support.rstudio.com/hc/communities/public/questions/200983187-R-studio-0-98-797-for-mac-opens-as-blank-white-page)
I had the same problem and figured out that for some reason R was blocked on the step of loading my library from a website (I added it to Rprofile for auto-load). You can test the following:
1) Try to run just R console, not RStudio, and then click on blank space - normally some information should appear
2) Try to launch without network connection
On a Mac (Running Yosemite 10.10.3) this is what worked for me:
Move/Rename ~/.rstudio-desktop
(Many responses have mentioned this, but this by itself didn't help.)
Then I shutdown my Mac and restarted it. RStudio worked when I logged back in.
Before that, I tried every one of the steps mentioned here and in many other links, including re-downloading R and RStudio, but unfortunately none of those steps helped in my case.
Search this documentation for 'Blank GUI'.
This is what I found which worked for me:
In Windows Explorer, go to C:\Users\currentUser\AppData\Roaming\RStudio.
Delete the Desktop.ini file
This technique forces RStudio to refresh and default to open-source R as the engine
Same issue I faced so I unistalled the windows installer and downloaded zip version from this link https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/
Unziped It and pasted it into c drive and created shortcut from Rstudio/bin/rstudio.exe file.
Working properly after that no issue. In windows installer checked that r session is not working due to an missing dll.
So try to install from ZIP
I had the same problem like Thomas
When I start RStudio, none on the windows inside the main frame come up, and none of the menu options display menu options when clicked. It's just an blank page.
My problem was, that i uninstalled R because is thought RStudio will work on its own.
So i uninstalled RStudio and deleting every existing file which was created by R or RStudio.
In the next step i installed RStudio again.
It was asking for a Version of R (which i dont had in this state). So i installed R again and everything is working fine now. I hope this helps
I had a slight variation of the problem that might be of interest. I had set up an aliases.cmd to run my cygwin bash shell automatically upon launch of a cmd terminal as per:
https://superuser.com/questions/302194/automatically-executing-commands-when-a-command-prompt-is-opened
What RStudio was doing was launching a few cmd windows in the background to (I assume) populate each pane and the console.
This was triggering a bash shell which wasn't returning and was hanging RStudio.
If you have this issue you can just manually kill the sub bash terminals spawned by cmd via ProcessExplorer/TaskManager and RStudio will continue to launch normally.
If anyone else has set anything to launch automatically on init of a cmd terminal then this could interfere in the same way with RStudio.
The RStudio devs could probably fix this behind the scenes by changing the way they spawn cmd terminals in the gui.
I had a similar problem. After trying the options above with no luck, I uninstalled Rx64 3.5.0 and installed an older version, R x64 3.2.2.
Rstudio then worked perfect.