Never used that, but go to your bin folder and see if you see both Rgui.exeand
Rterm.exe.  If so, you can definitely use that method.

HTH,

Roger



On 3/10/06, mark garey <garey@biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>
> yes sorry at the very least i should have mentioned this
> is on OSX.
>
> 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@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.)
> >>
> >> --
> >> Brian D. Ripley,ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
> >> Professor of Applied Statistics,http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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