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, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
