After installing the Mac GUI R: If I navigate to the "Applications" directory in the Mac Finder file browser, and <Control>-click (or right-click) on the R.app icon, a contextual menu pops up - I select "Duplicate" and a second "R copy.app" is created. I can then double-click to run that and have two copies of R up and running with the Mac R gui interface. I have yet to uncover any problem with doing this, Simon Urbanek can hopefully comment if there is any problem with this. So this appears to be one way to allow multiple instances of the same version of Mac GUI R to run. Alternatively, if I run the following command from a "Terminal" window $ /Applications/R.app/Contents/MacOS/R & $ /Applications/R.app/Contents/MacOS/R & $ /Applications/R.app/Contents/MacOS/R & I get several instances of the same version of the Mac GUI R up and running. So these are two methods I use to invoke multiple instances of various programs on my Mac. Of course you need to be clear about where each instance is writing its data, so for example if you quit and save the R session data objects to the default .RData file, you will overwrite the .RData file from another session instance as they will all have the same working directory - so you need to save results carefully. Other than that, I have not seen any problems with running multiple instances in these ways. If anyone knows of other potential problems, I'd appreciate hearing about them. HTH Steven McKinney Statistician Molecular Oncology and Breast Cancer Program British Columbia Cancer Research Centre
From: r-sig-mac-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch [r-sig-mac-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Steve Lianoglou [mailinglist.honeypot at gmail.com]
Sent: August 5, 2010 1:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] install two versions of R on a Mac
Sent: August 5, 2010 1:08 PM
To: Mike Lawrence
Cc: Irina Foss; r-sig-mac at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] install two versions of R on a Mac
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Mike Lawrence <Mike.Lawrence at dal.ca> wrote: > Do you mean you want two different versions of R on the same machine > (eg. R-2.11.1 & R-2.10.1)? Or do you mean you simply want to run > multiple sessions of the same version at once? If the latter, you > simply install one version and open multiple terminal sessions. And if you (Irina) are after the former, the only way I know how to run two different versions of R *simultaneously* is to have one installed by source (ie. not via the R.pkg which installs into /Library/Frameworks/R.framework) due to the requirement of a valid "Versions/Current" symlink in that R.framework directory. -steve > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Irina Foss <Irina.Foss at thurso.uhi.ac.uk> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to install two versions of R on a Mac OS laptop to run almost at the same time. I tried to use pkgutil--forget in the terminal but it did not seem to make any changes. >> >> Thank you, >> >> Irina >> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >> R-SIG-Mac at stat.math.ethz.ch >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >> > > > > -- > Mike Lawrence > Graduate Student > Department of Psychology > Dalhousie University > > Looking to arrange a meeting? Check my public calendar: > http://tr.im/mikes_public_calendar > > ~ Certainty is folly... I think. ~ > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac at stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Weill Medical College of Cornell University Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac at stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac