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 <[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 >> -- mark garey ucsf department of epidemiology and biostatistics division of biostatistics 185 berry street, suite 5700 san francisco, ca. 94107-1739 415.514.8147 [[alternative text/enriched version deleted]]
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