RStudio encounters fatal error and restarts on EVERY error in R-CodePudding

I recently changed employers and only have local administrator privileges on a virtual machine running Windows. I installed R and RStudio, both of which work fine, UNTIL I commit an error—any error. Once that happens, RStudio gives the dreaded "fatal error" message and restarts. The reprex is simple. Start RStudio and type as.Date('a'). This will give an error and cause Rstudio to shut down. It appears to be a java error with the key issue being (TypeError) : Cannot read property 'M' of null;. There have been many requests for help in RStudio's support forum with similar crashes which have not been answered, which is why I'm duplicating the question here.

Session Info and RStudio crash logs posted below

SessionInfo

R Under development (unstable) (2022-02-04 r81652 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 22000)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.utf8  LC_CTYPE=English_United States.utf8    LC_MONETARY=English_United States.utf8
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                           LC_TIME=English_United States.utf8    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.2.0 tools_4.2.0

RStudio Logs

2022-02-09T17:56:41.573000Z [rsession-AvrahamAdler] WARNING findProgramOnPath returns wrong result: C:\Users\AVRAHA~1\AppData\Local\Programs\MiKTeX\miktex\bin\x64\pdflatex.exe != C:/Users/AvrahamAdler/AppData/Local/Programs/MiKTeX/miktex/bin/x64/pdflatex.exe; LOGGED FROM: class rstudio::core::FilePath __cdecl rstudio::session::module_context::findProgram(const class std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > &) src/cpp/session/SessionModuleContext.cpp:1206
2022-02-09T17:56:41.573000Z [rsession-AvrahamAdler] WARNING findProgramOnPath returns wrong result: C:\Users\AVRAHA~1\AppData\Local\Programs\MiKTeX\miktex\bin\x64\pdflatex.exe != C:/Users/AvrahamAdler/AppData/Local/Programs/MiKTeX/miktex/bin/x64/pdflatex.exe; LOGGED FROM: class rstudio::core::FilePath __cdecl rstudio::session::module_context::findProgram(const class std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > &) src/cpp/session/SessionModuleContext.cpp:1206
2022-02-09T17:56:41.577000Z [rsession-AvrahamAdler] WARNING findProgramOnPath returns wrong result: C:\Users\AVRAHA~1\AppData\Local\Programs\MiKTeX\miktex\bin\x64\pdflatex.exe != C:/Users/AvrahamAdler/AppData/Local/Programs/MiKTeX/miktex/bin/x64/pdflatex.exe; LOGGED FROM: class rstudio::core::FilePath __cdecl rstudio::session::module_context::findProgram(const class std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > &) src/cpp/session/SessionModuleContext.cpp:1206
2022-02-09T17:56:41.577000Z [rsession-AvrahamAdler] WARNING findProgramOnPath returns wrong result: C:\Users\AVRAHA~1\AppData\Local\Programs\MiKTeX\miktex\bin\x64\pdflatex.exe != C:/Users/AvrahamAdler/AppData/Local/Programs/MiKTeX/miktex/bin/x64/pdflatex.exe; LOGGED FROM: class rstudio::core::FilePath __cdecl rstudio::session::module_context::findProgram(const class std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > &) src/cpp/session/SessionModuleContext.cpp:1206
2022-02-09T17:56:43.063059Z [rsession-AvrahamAdler] ERROR CLIENT EXCEPTION (rsession-AvrahamAdler): (TypeError) : Cannot read property 'M' of null;|||org/rstudio/studio/client/workbench/views/source/editors/text/AceEditor.java#4487::setScrollSpeed|||org/rstudio/studio/client/workbench/views/source/editors/text/AceEditorMonitor.java#46::monitor|||org/rstudio/studio/client/workbench/views/source/editors/text/AceEditorMonitor.java#70::execute|||com/google/gwt/core/client/impl/SchedulerImpl.java#140::execute|||com/google/gwt/core/client/impl/Impl.java#306::apply|||com/google/gwt/core/client/impl/Impl.java#345::entry0|||rstudio-0.js#-1::eval|||com/google/gwt/cell/client/AbstractEditableCell.java#41::viewDataMap|||Client-ID: 33e600bb-c1b1-46bf-b562-ab5cba070b0e|||User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0  Win64  x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) QtWebEngine/5.12.8 Chrome/69.0.3497.128 Safari/537.36
2022-02-09T17:56:43.063059Z [rsession-AvrahamAdler] ERROR CLIENT EXCEPTION (rsession-AvrahamAdler): (TypeError) : Cannot read property 'M' of null;|||org/rstudio/studio/client/workbench/views/source/editors/text/AceEditor.java#4487::setScrollSpeed|||org/rstudio/studio/client/workbench/views/source/editors/text/AceEditorMonitor.java#46::monitor|||org/rstudio/studio/client/workbench/views/source/editors/text/AceEditorMonitor.java#70::execute|||com/google/gwt/core/client/impl/SchedulerImpl.java#140::execute|||com/google/gwt/core/client/impl/Impl.java#306::apply|||com/google/gwt/core/client/impl/Impl.java#345::entry0|||rstudio-0.js#-1::eval|||com/google/gwt/cell/client/AbstractEditableCell.java#41::viewDataMap|||Client-ID: 33e600bb-c1b1-46bf-b562-ab5cba070b0e|||User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0  Win64  x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) QtWebEngine/5.12.8 Chrome/69.0.3497.128 Safari/537.36

CodePudding user response：

RStudio is about to come out with version 2022.02.0. As I write this it hasn't been released, but you can get daily builds from https://dailies.rstudio.com/ . The NEWS for that release includes the statement

RStudio now supports the experimental UTF-8 UCRT builds of R (#9824)

so it should fix your problems (and according to a comment, it did). However, do pay attention to the warning at the top of that web page:

Daily builds are intended for testing purposes, and are not recommended for general use. For stable builds, please visit rstudio.com.