[R] Help with connection issue for R (just joined, leading R for our agency)

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Bert Gunter 
>>>>>     on Tue, 8 Dec 2020 14:54:10 -0800 writes:

    > R and RStudio are separate products developed and
    > supported by separate organizations, although obviously
    > there is a large intersection between the
    > two. Nevertheless, if you think this is an RStudio related
    > problem, you should post on their support site, not here:
    > https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us

    > One suggestion: You should try to run R using its own
    > built in RGui (it ships and installs with R) to see if
    > your difficulties replicate there.  That should help
    > pinpoint whether R or RStudio is the source of your
    > problems, which sound kind of fishy to me.

    > Bert Gunter

Alejandra did say in her first post that things work fine when
she runs  R  "alone" ..

Welcome to the R user community, Alejandra!

Also, yes indeed, government (or company) firewalls *do* lead
to problems which are sometimes much more prominent when using R
via Rstudio, rather than using R "alone" (or via ESS which I use
99% of the time, "Emacs Speaks Statistics").

This is because Rstudio tries to do many things behind your back (*)
in order to be helpful to you later ...
((a little bit like Windows which you are using too,
  and I am happy I only have to do very rarely))

So, indeed, follow  Bert's advice to ask on the Rstudio
company support site.

Martin


---
*) e.g. looking at all your installed packages, which is still
 pretty detrimentous if you have full CRAN and much bioconductor
 installed as I;  also I think it installs things it needs from
 the internet without asking you, and then may get timeouts
 because of your firewall.






    > On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 2:38 PM Alejandra Barrio Gorski <
    > abarriogorski using gmail.com> wrote:

    >> Dear fellow R users,
    >> 
    >> Greetings, I am new to this list. I joined because I am
    >> pioneering the use of R for the agency I work for. I
    >> essentially work alone and would like to reach out for
    >> help on an issue I have been having. Here it is:
    >> 
    >> - From one day to the next, my RStudio does not execute
    >> commands when I press ctrl + enter. Nothing happens, and
    >> then after a few minutes out of nowhere, it runs
    >> everything at once. This makes it very hard to do my
    >> work.  - I tried uninstalling and re-installing both R
    >> and Rstudio, but the error comes up again. I tested
    >> commands on my R program alone, and it works fine
    >> there. It could be the way that Rstudio connects to R.  -
    >> I am on a Windows 10 computer. I work for a government
    >> agency so there may be a few firewall/virus protection
    >> issues.
    >> 
    >> I would love any pointers.
    >> 
    >> Thank you, Alejandra
    >> 
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    >> 
    >> *Alejandra Barrio* Linkedin
    >> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandra-barrio/> | Website
    >> <https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~alejandrabarrio/> MPP |
    >> M.A., International and Area Studies University of
    >> California, Berkeley
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