Hi, I was reading a thread: [R] "2nd R console" and had a similar question regarding having more than one R console open at a time. However, my question differs from that of the thread: Is it possible, or is there a wrapper that will allow one, to open an arbitrary number of R consoles which access the same R session (all objects in that session, etc.). This would be R on linux accessed through a shell - kind of like using GNU screen multi-user such that people could work collaboratively on a given session. The problem with screen is that all commands are interleaved in the same terminal, which is confusing and does not allow access to the command prompt at the same time, rather it would be sequential. I know there will be "why" questions but it is useful in an academic environment. Basically we have a memory machine for large genomic analysis - and we could set that up as an Rserver, but this placing R into a multi-user engine is better suited for our immediate needs. Does anybody have thoughts on this? Thanks for considering, Michael Janis UCLA Bioinformatics
Hi, I was reading a thread: [R] "2nd R console" and had a similar question regarding having more than one R console open at a time. However, my question differs from that of the thread: Is it possible, or is there a wrapper that will allow one, to open an arbitrary number of R consoles which access the same R session (all objects in that session, etc.). This would be R on linux accessed through a shell - kind of like using GNU screen multi-user such that people could work collaboratively on a given session. The problem with screen is that all commands are interleaved in the same terminal, which is confusing and does not allow access to the command prompt at the same time, rather it would be sequential. I know there will be "why" questions but it is useful in an academic environment. Basically we have a memory machine for large genomic analysis - and we could set that up as an Rserver, but this placing R into a multi-user engine is better suited for our immediate needs. Does anybody have thoughts on this? Thanks for considering, Michael Janis UCLA Bioinformatics
Have you looked at the nws package? It allows for a common workspace that multiple R sessions can all access. Hope this helps, -----Original Message----- From: "Michael Janis" <mjanis at chem.ucla.edu> To: "r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch" <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch> Sent: 7/30/07 7:49 AM Subject: [R] 2nd R Console Hi, I was reading a thread: [R] "2nd R console" and had a similar question regarding having more than one R console open at a time. However, my question differs from that of the thread: Is it possible, or is there a wrapper that will allow one, to open an arbitrary number of R consoles which access the same R session (all objects in that session, etc.). This would be R on linux accessed through a shell - kind of like using GNU screen multi-user such that people could work collaboratively on a given session. The problem with screen is that all commands are interleaved in the same terminal, which is confusing and does not allow access to the command prompt at the same time, rather it would be sequential. I know there will be "why" questions but it is useful in an academic environment. Basically we have a memory machine for large genomic analysis - and we could set that up as an Rserver, but this placing R into a multi-user engine is better suited for our immediate needs. Does anybody have thoughts on this? Thanks for considering, Michael Janis UCLA Bioinformatics ______________________________________________ R-help at 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.