Experienced R users avoid creating .Rdata files (with nothing in front of the 
period) because R will automatically load them and any mistakes recorded there 
can interfere with future uses of R when started from the directory containing 
that file. RData files with something in front of the period can be loaded 
interactively and any problems they bring can be avoided by simply not choosing 
to load them.

.Rhistory files have no such negative effect... it is highly unlikely that that 
file was causing you any problems. They are just a record of R commands that 
have been used and are only retrieved by R user interfaces such as Rgui or 
RStudio upon request.

On December 6, 2019 10:38:45 AM PST, gabriele pallotti 
<bolognareg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>I managed to get Rcmdr working simply by deleting the .Rdata and
>.Rhistory
>file from the work directory. It is rather weird, as I thought they
>only
>contained data and settings, but probably some of these belonged to the
>older version of R/Rcmdr and were not compatible with the new version.
>I'll keep the old data files in a separate folder and try to open them
>as a
>workspace after launching Rcmdr, but I won't do it now as I need Rcmdr
>to
>work in the next days and I don't want to take any risks...
>
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