R Studio takes a long time to load and shutdown

[iFeanyi]

Hello, please I have noticed lately, ever since I update R Studio on my desktop, that it takes an awful long time to load, and when I close the app, it also takes a really long time to shut down. When the app finally loads on my desktop, I often get the message below in my console:

Error in sys.source(codeFile, env, keep.source = keep.source, keep.parse.data = keep.parse.data) : 
  reached elapsed time limit

Please can anyone advise me what this error message means? Thanks

[nirgrahamuk]

My guess is its workspace related.
In Rstudio what options are set for you in the options ?
Options > General > Basic > Workspace

[iFeanyi]

The workspace option it is set to is "Save workspace to .RData on exit: Ask".

Again, I have many scripts open in R Studio. Could that be a factor?

[nirgrahamuk]

For best performance, and for less headaches (code working one day and not working the next)
I recommend changing to

i.e. dont save on exit, and even more importantly dont restore on start.
Then Restart R and it should be behaving better.

Though you may wish to review your scripts/projects, so that objects that take significant time to recalculate (and that you would rather be able to load for disk for a piece of work, you manage explicitly through use of saveRDS and loadRDS in your scripts)

[iFeanyi]

Thanks a lot for the advice