R help - Dec 2020 - Help with connection issue for R (just joined, leading R for our agency)

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

-- 

*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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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

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and
sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )


On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 2:38 PM Alejandra Barrio Gorski <
abarriogorski at 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
>
> --
>
> *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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Hello Alejandra,

|| On Tuesday,  8 Dec 2020 at 10:48, Alejandra Barrio Gorski wrote:

Welcome to the mailing list.
> 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:
Pioneering R is far from an easy task especially if you are doing it on
your own. Hat for raising up to the challenge!

This is mailing list is dedicated to R usage and I'm afraid you won't
find a lot of help regarding the working of R-Studio here.

|| On Wednesday,  9 Dec 2020 at 10:35, Martin Maechler
wrote:
> 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").
That said, I take the opportunity Martin gave me to advertise that both
Emacs and  Emacs Speaks Statistics works on Windows as well. The entry cost
might seem
expensive in the beginning but I assure you it will pay very quickly.

- For emacs
   - https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/
   - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iagbv974GlQ
   - emacs mailing-list help-gnu-emacs at gnu.org

- For ESS
   -  https://ess.r-project.org/
   -  ESS mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help


Best regards,
Jeremie

Hallo Alejandra

Although RStudio and ESS could help with some automation (each with its own
way), using R alone is not a big problem, especially if you are not familiar
with Emacs basics and perceiving RStudio issues. I use R with simple
external editor - it could be notepad but I could recommend TINN-R

https://sourceforge.net/projects/tinn-r/

which has syntax highlighting and works smoothly if R is console is set to
multiple windows. It is also quite easy to manage.

Good luck with R.

Cheers
Petr
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-help <r-help-bounces at r-project.org> On Behalf Of Alejandra
Barrio
> Gorski
> Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 7:48 PM
> To: R-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Help with connection issue for R (just joined, leading R for
our
> agency)
> 
> 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
> 
> --
> 
> *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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> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-
> guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.