Rstudio does not start after changing OpenGL settings

[sebas]

Dear all,

After trying to plot something with plot_ly() I got a message " WebGL not supported in internal browser".

Therefore I changed "Rendering engine" in Advanced settings from "automatic" to "desktop OpenGL".

After this change Rstudio does not start and with diagnostics I get the following messages

R session launched, attempting to connect on port 35029...
[11668:12416:1130/165250.196:ERROR:gl_surface_wgl.cc(391)] wglCreatePbufferARB not available.
[11668:12416:1130/165250.196:ERROR:gl_surface_qt.cpp(200)] Requested OpenGL implementation is not supported. Implementation: 1
Successfully initialized R session.

Diagnostics report written to: C:/Users/username/Documents/rstudio-diagnostics/diagnostics-report.txt

I deinstalled and reinstalled the latest version of Rstudio and I deleted the "Rstudio_Desktop" folder which did not solve the problem. I use Windows 10.

Hope someone can help.

Thanks,

Seb

EDIT: I forgot to say that I was working from a remote desktop connection.

[sebas]

OK I solved it. I found the solution here.

I changed in

%APPDATA%\Roaming\RStudio\desktop.ini

desktop.renderingEngine=software

And everything was back to normal.

Thanks

[kevinushey]

@sebas

EDIT: I forgot to say that I was working from a remote desktop connection.

Unfortunately, OpenGL support is not great over remote desktop connections. I would recommend considering RStudio Server as an alternative.