R studio not loading

Hi all,

I have troubles on a fresh R Studio installation, when R is not installed I get the "Choose R Installation" window, however after R is installed, RStudio does not start. I can seen in the windows task manager R Studio (32 bits) appearing then disappearing.

If I force the choose R windows with CTRL, I get the window however once I select and R instance, nothing happens.

The R Gui works. I I tried with different R versions : 3.3, 3.4, 32 vs 64 bits...

I tried with 2 different versions of R Studio

I turned off firewall/windows defender

I deleted the R desktop folder

Nothing worked so far

Below the diag report, thanks for your help

[1] "1.0.136"

$R
[1] "C:\\PROGRA~1\\R\\R-33~1.3\\bin\\x64\\R.exe"

$pdflatex
[1] ""

$bibtex
[1] ""

$gcc
[1] ""

$git
[1] ""

$svn
[1] ""

R version 3.3.3 (2017-03-06)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows Server >= 2012 x64 (build 9200)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=French_France.1252  LC_CTYPE=French_France.1252   
[3] LC_MONETARY=French_France.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                  
[5] LC_TIME=French_France.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_3.3.3

SysInfo:
             sysname              release              version 
           "Windows" "Server >= 2012 x64"         "build 9200" 
            nodename              machine                login 
             "GUEST"             "x86-64"                   "" 
                user       effective_user 
                  ""                   "" 

R Version:
               _                           
platform       x86_64-w64-mingw32          
arch           x86_64                      
os             mingw32                     
system         x86_64, mingw32             
status                                     
major          3                           
minor          3.3                         
year           2017                        
month          03                          
day            06                          
svn rev        72310                       
language       R                           
version.string R version 3.3.3 (2017-03-06)
nickname       Another Canoe               
$ALLUSERSPROFILE
[1] "C:\\ProgramData"

$APPDATA
[1] "C:\\Users\\jdoe\\AppData\\Roaming"

$CLIENTNAME
[1] "W8-PC06BJLE"

$CommonProgramFiles
[1] "C:\\Program Files\\Common Files"

$`CommonProgramFiles(x86)`
[1] "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Common Files"

$CommonProgramW6432
[1] "C:\\Program Files\\Common Files"

$COMPUTERNAME
[1] "GUEST"

$ComSpec
[1] "C:\\Windows\\system32\\cmd.exe"

$FPS_BROWSER_APP_PROFILE_STRING
[1] "Internet Explorer"

$FPS_BROWSER_USER_PROFILE_STRING
[1] "Default"

$GFORTRAN_STDERR_UNIT
[1] "-1"

$GFORTRAN_STDOUT_UNIT
[1] "-1"

$HOME
[1] "C:/Users/jdoe/Documents"

$HOMEDRIVE
[1] "C:"

$HOMEPATH
[1] "\\Users\\jdoe"

$LOCALAPPDATA
[1] "C:\\Users\\jdoe\\AppData\\Local"

$LOGONSERVER
[1] "\\\\AD02"

$MSMPI_BIN
[1] "C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft MPI\\Bin\\"

$NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS
[1] "1"

$OS
[1] "Windows_NT"

$PATH
[1] "C:\\Program Files\\R\\R-3.3.3\\bin\\x64;C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft MPI\\Bin\\;C:\\Windows\\system32;C:\\Windows;C:\\Windows\\System32\\Wbem;C:\\Windows\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft SQL Server\\Client SDK\\ODBC\\130\\Tools\\Binn\\;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft SQL Server\\140\\Tools\\Binn\\;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft SQL Server\\140\\DTS\\Binn\\;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft SQL Server\\140\\Tools\\Binn\\ManagementStudio\\;C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SQL Server\\130\\Tools\\Binn\\;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft SQL Server\\110\\DTS\\Binn\\;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft SQL Server\\120\\DTS\\Binn\\;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft SQL Server\\130\\DTS\\Binn\\;C:\\Users\\jdoe\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps;"

$PATHEXT
[1] ".COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC"

$PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE
[1] "AMD64"

$PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER
[1] "Intel64 Family 6 Model 63 Stepping 2, GenuineIntel"

$PROCESSOR_LEVEL
[1] "6"

$PROCESSOR_REVISION
[1] "3f02"

$ProgramData
[1] "C:\\ProgramData"

$ProgramFiles
[1] "C:\\Program Files"

$`ProgramFiles(x86)`
[1] "C:\\Program Files (x86)"

$ProgramW6432
[1] "C:\\Program Files"

$PROMPT
[1] "$P$G"

$PSModulePath
[1] "C:\\Program Files\\WindowsPowerShell\\Modules;C:\\Windows\\system32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\Modules"

$PUBLIC
[1] "C:\\Users\\Public"

$R_ARCH
[1] "/x64"

$R_COMPILED_BY
[1] "gcc 4.9.3"

$R_DOC_DIR
[1] "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-33~1.3/doc"

$R_HOME
[1] "C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-33~1.3"

$R_LIBS_USER
[1] "C:/Users/jdoe/Documents/R/win-library/3.3"

$R_USER
[1] "C:/Users/jdoe/Documents"

$RMARKDOWN_MATHJAX_PATH
[1] "C:/Program Files/RStudio/resources/mathjax-26"

$RS_LOCAL_PEER
[1] "\\\\.\\pipe\\46987-rsession"

$RS_RPOSTBACK_PATH
[1] "C:/Program Files/RStudio/bin/rpostback"

$RS_SHARED_SECRET
[1] "63341846741"

$RSTUDIO
[1] "1"

$RSTUDIO_MSYS_SSH
[1] "C:/Program Files/RStudio/bin/msys-ssh-1000-18"

$RSTUDIO_PANDOC
[1] "C:/Program Files/RStudio/bin/pandoc"

$RSTUDIO_SESSION_PORT
[1] "46987"

$RSTUDIO_USER_IDENTITY
[1] "jdoe"

$RSTUDIO_WINUTILS
[1] "C:/Program Files/RStudio/bin/winutils"

$SESSIONNAME
[1] "RDP-Tcp#0"

$SystemDrive
[1] "C:"

$SystemRoot
[1] "C:\\Windows"

$TEMP
[1] "C:\\Users\\jdoe\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\2"

$TMP
[1] "C:\\Users\\jdoe\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\2"

$USERDNSDOMAIN
[1] "FTS.LOCAL"

$USERDOMAIN
[1] "FTS"

$USERDOMAIN_ROAMINGPROFILE
[1] "FTS"

$USERNAME
[1] "jdoe"

$USERPROFILE
[1] "C:\\Users\\jdoe"

$windir
[1] "C:\\Windows"

 [1] ".GlobalEnv"        "tools:rstudio"     "package:stats"    
 [4] "package:graphics"  "package:grDevices" "package:utils"    
 [7] "package:datasets"  "package:methods"   "Autoloads"        
[10] "package:base"     
Log file: rdesktop.log
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(Empty)

Log file: rsession-jdoe.log
--------------------------------------------------

(Empty)

Unfortunately, nothing stands out as a reason for why RStudio is unable to launch in your environment.

Do you have any success launching RStudio using an administrator account? If so, the issue might relate to permissions.

Do you have any better luck with the daily builds of RStudio? https://dailies.rstudio.com

Hi Kevin,

That's not a permission issue however the latest daily build works. Thanks a lot !

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