[R-SIG-Mac] opening multiple R sessions w/ R.app

[Kenneth Knoblauch]

I should add that this seems to be a feature of Mac 0S 10.5 as
I don't see it working in Tiger, nor so I see the -h option
in the man page for open on Tiger.

Quoting Kenneth Knoblauch <ken.knoblauch at inserm.fr>:

> Hi,
>
> I just saw this on http://www.macosxhints.com/ and it seems
> to work OK with R.  If you want to open multiple sessions of
> the R GUI, you can run from terminal,
>
> open -n /Applications/R.app
>
> I know that you could always run multiple R sessions using
> the terminal, but I thought that you could only have one
> R.app running for a given R.app.
>
> I would be curious if there are any down sides to this;
> any reasons to proscribe it.
>
> --
> Ken Knoblauch
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-- 
Ken Knoblauch
Inserm U846
Institut Cellule Souche et Cerveau
Département Neurosciences Intégratives
18 avenue du Doyen Lépine
69500 Bron
France
tel: +33 (0)4 72 91 34 77
fax: +33 (0)4 72 91 34 61
portable: +33 (0)6 84 10 64 10
http://www.sbri.fr