Slowness when calling View()

[kevinushey]

https://community.rstudio.com/t/rstudio-1-1-383-very-slow-to-open-view-tab-on-windows-7/1865

May be related to #1592 -- a number of users have reported that this occurs when RStudio, their R library, or some combination of both live on network shares.

[kevinushey]

One user has reported this on macOS: https://community.rstudio.com/t/rsstudio-1-1-perfomance-issues/1915; perhaps it's not Windows-only?

[ateucher]

I posted in the Community forum - reposting here:

I had this same issue and figured out a workaround that has been doing the job. It seems to happen when your HOME is on a network drive (as it often is in an enterprise environment).

My workaround is here: https://gist.github.com/ateucher/f279abc1f7ba12f2763152c18810fb24 - essentially I just set the HOME env var to a location on my C: drive. As far as I can tell, HOME is generally unused (and unset by default) in Windows, so making this change didn't really change anything else on my system, except in the bash shell that comes with Git for Windows.

[kevinushey]

I have a suspicion that this issue may be resolved in the current preview release of RStudio (hopefully to be published in the near future as a patch release):

https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/preview/

@ateucher, if you have a minute would you be willing to test the preview release (v1.1.393) and let us know if the issue is still present?

[ateucher]

@kevinushey I'm no longer on Windows, but my colleague @boshek said he can give it a whirl.

[boshek]

This indeed does appear to be fixed at least on my Windows 7 machine. I was able to replicate the error in v1.1.383 but not in v1.1.393. The View() popped up a pane very speedily.

[kevinushey]

That's excellent news! Thanks for taking the time to check.

[DuraQ]

v1.1.393 fixed the issue I had where R-Studio would not work whenever my home (network) drive was connected. I can finally stop using Eclipse and go back to R-Studio !

[JanOosting]

I also experienced slowness of view() with a home folder on a network drive

Installing the current preview (1.1.402) solved this issue.