[R-SIG-Mac] What are these other 'R' processes?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 2024-11-27 6:00 p.m., Carl Witthoft wrote:
>    "I Never Looked"  category!  I was checking the Activity Monitor and
> noticed that, in addition to a process called "R" which displays the R
> logo , I have six other processes called "R" with just a plain capital "R" .
> These others all have newer PIDs than the "main" R.  One of them appears
> to be idling with a bit of CPU usage while all others, including the
> 'main' one, are at zero CPU (I'm using Rgui.app and at the moment not
> running any command).
> 
> Do these other processes matter? Are they leftovers?

I don't see extra R processes.  Just the one with the R icon.

If you exit R.app, do the remaining processes go away?

Duncan Murdoch