Creating a Diagnostic Report

Diagnostic reports can be created within a working session, or from outside a session on a terminal.

In an RStudio session

From the menu, click Help > Diagnostics > Write Diagnostics Report.

Outside of an RStudio session

If RStudio is not starting, run a diagnostics report using the following method. Additionally, you need to provide the contents of the started terminal session.

Windows

Run a diagnostics report by typing the following command into Start > Run:

"C:\Program Files\RStudio\rstudio.exe" --run-diagnostics

The diagnostics report is placed in your user’s Documents directory in a directory called rstudio-diagnostics. For example: C:\Users\Username\Documents\rstudio-diagnostics\diagnostics-report.txt

If you installed RStudio to a location other than C:\Program Files, specify this unique location in the command.

macOS

Run a diagnostics report by typing the following command at the Terminal:

/Applications/RStudio.app/Contents/MacOS/RStudio --run-diagnostics

The diagnostics report is placed in your user home directory For example: ~/rstudio-diagnostics/diagnostics-report.txt.

Linux

Run a diagnostics report by typing the following command at the Terminal:

rstudio --run-diagnostics

The diagnostics report is placed in your user home directory. For example: ~/rstudio-diagnostics/diagnostics-report.txt.