RStudio not starting

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I saw another thread re: RStudio and decided to investigate my installed (through zypper) Rstudio. I have not used it for months but it used to start up. RStudio does not start.

Run from terminal, the following errors are received. See below:

(base) tom@mydesktop:~> rstudio
Error creating openGL context
WebEngineContext used before QtWebEngine::initialize() or OpenGL context creation failed.
QGLXContext: Failed to create dummy context
Failed to create OpenGL context for format QSurfaceFormat(version 2.0, options QFlags<QSurfaceFormat::FormatOption>(), depthBufferSize 24, redBufferSize -1, greenBufferSize -1, blueBufferSize -1, alphaBufferSize -1, stencilBufferSize 8, samples 0, swapBehavior QSurfaceFormat::DefaultSwapBehavior, swapInterval 1, colorSpace QSurfaceFormat::DefaultColorSpace, profile  QSurfaceFormat::NoProfile) 
Aborted (core dumped)
(base) tom@mydesktop:~>

I did try a reinstall and received same messages. I have no knowledge of what to do with this information. Opengl is installed.
Anyone have any insights?

thanks, tom kosvic

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Did preliminary search and RStudio threads indicated this might be an RStudio problem that is related to changes of graphics drivers. NVidia drivers did update very recently as I remember. Reboot was suggested. Will try that and report back.

tom kosvic

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I won the cigar! Reboot after graphics driver update solved the problem. RStudio started fine.

tom kosvic

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As I pointed out in the other thread – «due to a similar issue with the package: “audacity”» – there are some packages which neither update nor re-install correctly.

Please use the following Zypper command to remove the dependencies before your re-install the RStudio components:

# zypper remove --clean-deps rstudio rstudio-desktop rstudio-server

Then, re-install the RStudio components.