[R] 2nd R console?

[Thomas Lumley]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, mark garey wrote:

> yes sorry at the very least i should have mentioned this
> is on OSX.

Yes, but the real question is what you mean by "a 2nd R console".  I 
guessed that you meant a second console for the same workspace, Brian 
Ripley guessed that you meant another instance of R.

 	-thomas

>
> regards,
>
> mark+ \ ucsf
>
> On Mar 10, 2006, at 5:14 AM, roger bos wrote:
>
>> I never tried opening more than one instance of Rgui, but when I
>> wanted to run two jobs at the same time on one Win XP PC, I would run
>> one in Rgui and one in Rterm and I have never had a problem with that
>> setup.  As above, when I close my R session, I always say no to the
>> save question.
>>  
>> HTH,
>>  
>> Roger
>>
>>  
>> On 3/10/06, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: On Thu, 9
>> Mar 2006, Thomas Lumley wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, mark garey wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> hello all, i'm forwarding this question for a colleague.
>>>>>
>>>>> "Is it possible to open a 2nd R Console?"
>>>>
>>>> The answer is probably "No", but since it isn't clear what your
>>> colleague
>>>> means by "a 2nd R Console" or what OS this is, it's hard to be sure.
>>>
>>> I would say the answer is almost certainly 'yes'.  In all the cases I
>>> know
>>> of if you launch 2 (or more) R consoles you will get separate R
>>> processes
>>> with separate workspaces.  The only problem I can envisage is that
>>> they
>>> might share a working directory and so the last one shut down could
>>> overwrite the workspace image and history saved from other consoles.
>>> (But that is only a problem if you save your work that way, and I
>>> rarely
>>>  do.)
>>>
>>> --
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> mark garey
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Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle