I’ve been having issues working with R which seemed to have started quite out of the blue. I’ve been working on a fairly large script and it was working fine but a few days ago seemed suddenly to become incredibly slow in executing just small sections – without having made any changes to the script. Now, still without having made any changes, it’s not working at all.
Rstudio opens no problem and for the first few seconds I can scroll my quarto script, but then it freezes and my cursor becomes the I text cursor everywhere in the window other than the top file/edit/code…(etc.) toolbar.
- It’s unresponsive to clicking
- It doesn’t register typing
- It doesn’t allow resizing of panes or scrolling other panes
- Although I can navigate the top toolbar it is also unresponsive to clicks (e.g.,
Session->Restart Rdoes nothing; nor does the associated shortcut,Ctrl+Shift+F10) - I only seem to be able to close the window through task manager.
The issue doesn’t seem to occur when I open the script I’m working on outside of its project.
I’ve tried:
- Restarting my laptop
- Updating Windows
- Updating R (version 2024.04.2+764)
- Updating Rstudio (version 4.4.1)
- Closing everything except the one file I’m trying to work on