Just to expand a little on David's answer...
In the last few days I have been running four or five simulations
simultaneously on a Mac Pro by starting them from the command line.
The code for the simulation is in a file foo.R and it is run from
Terminal with
$ R CMD BATCH foo.R &
Issuing a similar command multiple times results in multiple parallel
instances of R to run.
For nice R graphics on OS X, use the quartz device with the CarbonEL
package. I have in my ~/.Rprofile file:
library("graphics")
library("CarbonEL")
options(repos = "http://cran.ca.r-project.org";, menu.graphics =
FALSE, device = "quartz")
As an aside, if you frequently want to run multiple instances of R
(e.g. to work on different projects), I would recommend using R from
within Emacs with ESS; see
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#R-and-Emacs
On OS X, I use Aquamacs (http://aquamacs.org) which comes bundled with
ESS. No setup necessary!
[I know, this is more of a Unix than Mac-like approach...]
Hope this helps!
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Vincent Goulet, Associate Professor
École d'actuariat
Université Laval, Québec
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca
Le jeu. 13 mars à 07:12, David Rossiter a écrit :
> Don't forget you can run R from Terminal. So there you can have any
> number of Terminal windows open, each with its own R. You can even
> open
> a quartz device (although non-interactive). You can also run it under
> X-windows (from xterm for example) and there you have an x11 device.
>
> D G Rossiter
> International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth
> Observation (ITC)
> Enschede, The Netherlands
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am a new MacPro user. So far, I am very happy with the
>> performance of MacPro.
>> However, I cannot not figure out if I can open multiple R
>> Console to run multiple R tasks in my MacPro.
>> Every time I click R icon and want to start a new task, the
>> old R task will always pop-up.
>> Let me know if you have answers. Thanks.
>>
>> Ling
>>
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