RStudio Desktop: r is taking longer to start than usual

Question

I have been running rstudio desktop for several months but recently I went to start it and it says "r is taking longer to start than usual" and the loading wheel just spins and spins but it never opens.trys to load but never opens I am running the latest versions of R and Rstudio as of this post. I am running windows 10 as my operating system.

I have tried deleting .Rdata, Rprofile.site, .Rprofile and .Renviron files. I have uninstalled and reinstalled both R and Rstudio to the default locations. I have tried clearing the global environment and the DNS cache. When I try to start R with an OS command it says "R is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file." Yet if I use the short cut I am able to open base R.

Any suggestions on how to resolve this issue would be much appreciated I have been trying to fix this for days but have found nothing but dead ends. Please let me know if there is more data I can provide that would be useful in resolving this issue.

Thank you.

Answer 1

I am answering this for posterity, the OP of this question reported being able to resolve their issue in another forum. Their solution was:

I had to uninstall R and Rstudio
Launch "run" enter %localappdata% and delete all files pertaining to R or Rstudio
Launch "run" enter %appdata% go to roaming and delete the Rstudio files there
Got to where I had my R packages installed and delete those
Then I had to reinstall R and RStudio

I ran into this same strange error and I was able to resolve it without touching R or my packages:

1. Uninstall RStudio
2. Launch "run" enter %localappdata% and delete all files pertaining to Rstudio
3. Launch "run" enter %appdata% go to roaming and delete the Rstudio files there
4. Reinstall RStudio