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RStudio: Using View() is very slow
In RStudio View(iris) can be very slow - it can lock up RStudio for ~5-10s or more.
Run the following to find out your HOME directory:
$ echo $HOME
This returns /h/ - your Home drive on the network
If you run:
$ setx HOME $USERPROFILE (in bash)
OR
> setx HOME "%USERPROFILE%" (in CMD)
this sets HOME to c:/Users/[username], and it appears to fix the problem - View(iris) is now fast everywhere!
Caveat: It is likely that currently you have all of your dotfiles (.Rprofile, .Renviron, .gitconfig, .bashrc, etc.) in your H:/ (home network) drive because that is (has been) the HOME directory. If you set HOME to c:/Users/[username] as above, you will need to move all of your dotfiles there.
If you find that the data viewer in RStudio is causing other problems—for instance truncating the number of columns in a large data set—you could try using utils::View(my_data) instead.