Comments on: R-Sessions 29: Running R-Project twice on Apple Mac OS X

By: Amparo

Amparo — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 08:25:17 +0000

Hi Rense,

As I see you know a lot about mac and R. Well, I am a beginner in R(R.3.0.1 GUI) and in mac (mac book Pro bought on may). I am trying to run an advanced process (FrailtyPenal) with a larga dataset (300,000 rows and 40 columns) and I can not, it starts running and after three minutes it says: “the boot disk is full”. The working directory is an external disk. I do not have a lot of programs neither files in the laptot. Please, do you know what I can do, maybe I have to cancel some processes, I do not know which of then can be cancelled, or I should by another SSD…..
I would appreciate your answer because I need to continue with my research.
Thank you so much!

By: Rense Nieuwenhuis

Rense Nieuwenhuis — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 12:03:03 +0000

True! Thanks for sharing that – it really is much easier indeed.

By: Dietmar

Dietmar — Sat, 25 May 2013 14:02:29 +0000

You can run several instances of R via the terminal. Just start one or several
terminal windows, type R and type or copy your R code.

By: Rense Nieuwenhuis

Rense Nieuwenhuis — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:17:48 +0000

Hi Pradeep,

You can find some R manuals here: http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html, including one on “R Installation and Administration”. Hope that helps.

By: Pradeep

Pradeep — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:28:46 +0000

hi rense,
can u please tell me how to run the r program on in MACbook air.
i mean tell me the key i have to press in order to run some commands.

By: Mark Heckmann

Mark Heckmann — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:30:53 +0000

Hi Rense,
great work – the R Sessions! Thanks.
To start multiple instances of R was just what I have been looking for since quite some time.
Thanks for the hint.
Mark