[R] How do I run to or more R consoles on Mac OS X?

[Don MacQueen]

If myscript.r has as its first line:

   #! /usr/bin/Rscript

and you make it executable
    chmod +x myscript.r

Then you can run it by giving the command

   ./myscript.r


-Don

At 3:03 PM -0800 11/30/09, chronos.phenomena wrote:
>Thanks... that worked
>
>is there a way to run r script?
>
>for example open -n /Applications/R.app myscript.r
>
>
>when I use this syntax... I get my script file opened but not executed :(
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>
>
>Ken Knoblauch wrote:
>>
>>  chronos.phenomena <chronos.phenomena <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  This is really annoying me... when I click R application icon it brings
>>>  already opened session in the focus and it DOESN'T open new session....
>>>
>>>  any ideas?
>>
>>  In Leopard from a terminal, you can try
>>
>>  open -n /Applications/R.app
>>
>>  to open as many copies of the app as you like.  Be careful though,
>>  because these inherit environment variables from the terminal
>>  session, not necessarily the same as those when running the
>>  app from the Finder.  I was bitten by that the first time I
>>  tried this.
>>
>>  Ken
>>
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