multiple independent R sessions in Mac OS X
Thank you for all the suggestions. Here is a brief summary of the possible solutions:
- Using Terminal: Run:
open -n /Applications/RStudio.app
in Terminal - Install Emacs and ESS which permit multiple sessions
- Duplicate the entire R.app package by option-dragging (and you can rename the copies)
- Run multiple rstudio sessions using projects
Opens another instance of an application in OSX:
open -n -a "APPLICATION NAME"
In this case you'd just do:
open -n -a "rstudio"
CNET article source
I use this all the time on Mac OSX to open multiple Rgui sessions (similar to the Rstudio answer above): open -n /Applications/R.app/ You can do this multiple times for as many R sessions as you want.
Another option for RStudio is to right click the RStudio icon of a current session and select "New RStudio Window":