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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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, [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 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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
