Starting a New RStudio Server Session After "Error occurred during initialization"

When to Use?

Our support team has noticed that when users attempt to update an R package used within an active dataset (or a package with dependencies in the active dataset), you might receive the following error:

RStudio Initialization Error with the following message Error Occurred During Transmission

(Rstudio Initialization Error: Error occurred during transmission)

Fortunately, you can start a new Rstudio session on your own.

Procedure

When prompted with “error occurred during transmission”

  1. Clear your web browser’s caches:
    Clear Caches - Google Chrome

    Clear Caches - Firefox

  2. Go to rstudio.gvsu.edu/home in your Web Browser

    • Make sure you’re using the “/home” in the URL otherwise you will not see the same items as shown in the following steps.

  3. If prompted, log in

  4. If there are active sessions, choose the Quit All option at the top of the page to quit them
    RStudio Server Lobby Page with Quit All sessions indicated

  5. Check the box to Force Quit and click the Quit Session button

    RStudio Quit Session confirmation window with Force Quit option selected

  6. Click New Session
    RStudio Server Lobby page with New Session indicated

  7. You should now have a new RStudio Session

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