RStudio

A guide to uninstall RStudio from your computer

RStudio is a Windows program. Read below about how to remove it from your computer. The Windows release was developed by RStudio. Check out here where you can read more on RStudio. The program is usually placed in the C:\Program Files\RStudio folder (same installation drive as Windows). You can remove RStudio by clicking on the Start menu of Windows and pasting the command line C:\Program Files\RStudio\Uninstall.exe. Keep in mind that you might get a notification for administrator rights. The program's main executable file is titled rstudio.exe and it has a size of 5.48 MB (5747200 bytes).

The following executables are incorporated in RStudio. They occupy 332.93 MB (349100391 bytes) on disk.

• Uninstall.exe (109.63 KB)
• consoleio.exe (779.00 KB)
• crashpad_handler.exe (740.00 KB)
• crashpad_http_upload.exe (360.00 KB)
• diagnostics.exe (1.90 MB)
• QtWebEngineProcess.exe (24.62 KB)
• rpostback.exe (4.50 MB)
• rsession.exe (16.53 MB)
• rsinverse.exe (5.31 MB)
• rstudio.exe (5.48 MB)
• urlopener.exe (1.88 MB)
• winpty-agent.exe (902.50 KB)
• cmp.exe (56.00 KB)
• diff.exe (147.00 KB)
• diff3.exe (58.00 KB)
• sdiff.exe (60.50 KB)
• egrep.exe (90.00 KB)
• fgrep.exe (53.50 KB)
• grep.exe (94.00 KB)
• error-mode.exe (30.34 KB)
• msysmnt.exe (1.32 MB)
• ps.exe (1.33 MB)
• scp.exe (49.50 KB)
• sftp.exe (85.00 KB)
• ssh.exe (312.50 KB)
• ssh-add.exe (97.00 KB)
• ssh-agent.exe (86.50 KB)
• ssh-keygen.exe (135.50 KB)
• ssh-keyscan.exe (175.50 KB)
• pandoc-citeproc.exe (123.09 MB)
• pandoc.exe (145.72 MB)
• SumatraPDF.exe (6.92 MB)
• winutils.exe (34.00 KB)
• winutils.exe (105.50 KB)
• rsession.exe (13.18 MB)
• winpty-agent.exe (1,004.01 KB)

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The current page applies to RStudio version 1.3.959 only. You can find below a few links to other RStudio versions:

• 1.0.29
• 1.1.419
• 1.1.364
• 2022.02.2485
• 1.1.453
• 1.1.423
• 1.2.5001
• 0.95.258
• 2022.07.0548
• 2022.02.1461.1
• 0.94.110
• 0.99.891
• 0.99.483
• 0.99.442
• 1.2.1568
• 0.99.879
• 1.2.830
• 1.2.1004
• 0.98.1062
• 1.0.136
• 0.99.903
• 2022.07.1554.3
• 0.98.953
• 0.99.386
• 0.98.495
• 0.97.316
• 0.99.896
• 0.98.1074
• 0.98.987
• 0.99.1243
• 0.98.1079
• 1.3.10731
• 2021.09.4403
• 0.97.306
• 0.97.248
• 1.1.338
• 0.99.486
• 0.98.1102
• 1.2.1226
• 0.98.1078
• 2021.09.2382
• 2021.09.2382.1
• 2022.02.0443
• 0.98.994
• 1.4.521
• 1.1.463
• 0.99.489
• 0.96.331
• 1.1.442
• 2022.07.1554
• 1.2.50331
• 1.1.353
• 0.97.551
• 1.2.792
• 0.99.473
• 0.98.932
• 0.99.335
• 1.2.1335
• 0.99.484
• 1.3.9441
• 0.98.490
• 0.99.463
• 0.96.122
• 2022.07.2576
• 0.99.485
• 1.2.1030
• 1.2.1237
• 1.1.393
• 1.1.383
• 1.4.1717
• 0.98.945
• 0.96.316
• 0.99.491
• 0.99.887
• 0.99.878
• 1.2.5033
• 0.98.1059
• 0.95.256
• 1.2.5042
• 0.98.484
• 0.97.449
• 0.99.902
• 0.99.451
• 0.99.892
• 1.4.953
• 0.97.312
• 1.0.143
• 2022.02.1461
• 1.2.1511
• 2021.09.1372
• 2022.02.0392.1
• 1.1.218
• 0.99.786
• 0.98.497
• 0.99.393
• 0.95.263
• 0.98.1073
• 0.97.320
• 1.1.447
• 0.97.173

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If planning to uninstall RStudio you should check if the following data is left behind on your PC.

Directories that were left behind:

• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\RStudio

Files remaining:

• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio\rstudio-desktop.json
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\addin_registry
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\client-state\environment-grid.persistent
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\client-state\workbenchp.persistent
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\history_database
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\log\rsession-UserName.log
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\monitored\lists\addins_mru
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\monitored\lists\file_mru
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\monitored\lists\help_history_links
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\monitored\lists\plot_publish_mru
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\monitored\lists\project_mru
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\monitored\lists\user_dictionary
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\notebooks\patch-chunk-names
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\notebooks\paths
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\pcs\files-pane.pper
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\pcs\packages-pane.pper
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\pcs\source-pane.pper
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\pcs\windowlayoutstate.pper
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\pcs\workbench-pane.pper
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\projects\none\console07\7328E954
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\projects\none\console07\INDEX001
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\projects_settings\last-project-path
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\rmd-outputs
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\saved_source_markers
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\sources\per\t\6697E082
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\sources\prop\3C8D59BC
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\sources\prop\INDEX
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Local\RStudio-Desktop\viewer-cache\8813FD15.Rdata
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\RStudio\desktop.ini

Registry keys:

• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.c\OpenWithList\rstudio.exe
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.cpp\OpenWithList\rstudio.exe
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.css\OpenWithList\rstudio.exe
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.h\OpenWithList\rstudio.exe
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.hpp\OpenWithList\rstudio.exe
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.htm\OpenWithList\rstudio.exe
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.html\OpenWithList\rstudio.exe
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.js\OpenWithList\rstudio.exe
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.markdown\OpenWithList\rstudio.exe
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.md\OpenWithList\rstudio.exe
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mdtxt\OpenWithList\rstudio.exe
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.R\OpenWithList\rstudio.exe
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.Rd\OpenWithList\rstudio.exe
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.rda\OpenWithList\rstudio.exe
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.RData\OpenWithList\rstudio.exe
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.rdprsp\OpenWithList\rstudio.exe
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.Rhtml\OpenWithList\rstudio.exe
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.Rmarkdown\OpenWithList\rstudio.exe
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.Rmd\OpenWithList\rstudio.exe
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.Rnw\OpenWithList\rstudio.exe
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.Rpres\OpenWithList\rstudio.exe
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.Rproj\OpenWithList\rstudio.exe
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.tex\OpenWithList\rstudio.exe
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\rstudio.exe
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\RStudio.Rproj
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\RStudio
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\RStudio

Open regedit.exe in order to remove the following registry values:

• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\C:\Users\UserName\Downloads\RStudio-1.3.959.exe
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\E:\rstudio\bin\rsession.exe
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache\E:\RStudio\bin\rstudio.exe
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\FirewallRules\TCP Query User{5472BEFE-6DF8-4ABA-9BE5-8BC48142A838}E:\rstudio\bin\rsession.exe
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\FirewallRules\UDP Query User{5382992A-891A-4479-93AA-5C13FCDD9FE6}E:\rstudio\bin\rsession.exe

A way to erase RStudio with the help of Advanced Uninstaller PRO

RStudio is an application by RStudio. Some computer users decide to remove this application. Sometimes this can be hard because uninstalling this manually takes some know-how related to Windows program uninstallation. One of the best SIMPLE approach to remove RStudio is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Here is how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO on your PC, install it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is an efficient uninstaller and general tool to optimize your system.

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• go to Download Link
• download the program by clicking on the DOWNLOAD button
• install Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Run Advanced Uninstaller PRO. It's recommended to take your time to get familiar with the program's interface and wealth of tools available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a powerful Windows optimizer.

3. Click on the General Tools category


4. Activate the Uninstall Programs button


5. All the applications existing on your computer will be shown to you

6. Navigate the list of applications until you find RStudio or simply activate the Search feature and type in "RStudio". If it is installed on your PC the RStudio application will be found automatically. When you select RStudio in the list of apps, the following information regarding the application is made available to you:

• Star rating (in the left lower corner). The star rating explains the opinion other people have regarding RStudio, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Reviews by other people - Click on the Read reviews button.
• Details regarding the app you want to uninstall, by clicking on the Properties button.

7. Click the Uninstall button. A window asking you to confirm will come up. Confirm the uninstall by clicking Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will then remove RStudio.


8. After uninstalling RStudio, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run an additional cleanup. Press Next to perform the cleanup. All the items of RStudio which have been left behind will be detected and you will be able to delete them. By removing RStudio using Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no registry items, files or directories are left behind on your disk.

Your system will remain clean, speedy and ready to serve you properly.

Disclaimer

The text above is not a recommendation to uninstall RStudio by RStudio from your computer, we are not saying that RStudio by RStudio is not a good application. This text only contains detailed instructions on how to uninstall RStudio supposing you decide this is what you want to do. The information above contains registry and disk entries that our application Advanced Uninstaller PRO discovered and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.