[R] R hangs on startup

[David Winsemius]

> On Apr 2, 2017, at 2:30 PM, Vineet Gupta <lakestay at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have been struggling with this problem with for 2 weeks, but have yet to find a solution on Google.
> 
> I am running R 3.3.3 on Windows 10. For the past 2 weeks, when I open R (and RStudio), the R screen freezes and is unusable. Nothing has changed, to trigger this event. I have tried re-installing the software, and downgrading to an older version of R. Nothing seems to work.
> 
> If someone could help me, then I would very much appreciate it. At this point, I am at a loss.
> 

Startup difficulties are often the result of a corrupted ,Rdata or .Rhistory file. These are generally hidden files, so you may need to learn how to delete such "dot-files" or whatever term is used to describe files that do no appear on your OS file browser. I don't know where the Windows version of RStudio keeps these files.


> Rgds,
> Vineet
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David Winsemius
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