Never used that, but go to your bin folder and see if you see both Rgui.exeand Rterm.exe. If so, you can definitely use that method.
HTH, Roger On 3/10/06, mark garey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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, UKFax:+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]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > 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
