[TxMt] problem with R interaction [was math bundle feature request]

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>> But, if you are running several R sessions with complex tasks,  
>> well, then I have an humble question: Why do you are using TM for  
>> that? You want to control all R sessions with TM?
>
> Hans,
>
> I THINK that  what  Haris meant was that you may have the  
> WORKSPACE  from the different running  R sessions getting mixed  
> up..  Whereby  potentially some variables are being created by one  
> session  and wrongly evaluated  by another session that thinks they  
> are part of that session.  I for one am one of those that   
> frequently runs  3 instances of   R all from TM - sometimes  
> (almost) simultaneously: the  R version;  the Sweave version; and  
> the Console version (this more for the simple one off  calculations  
> say as I work in my latex/Sweave document - infact, at times the  
> calculation has nothing to do with the work - but someone calls  
> while I am in the middle of work & presents a set of figures - eg a  
> debt that I quickly need to work out).  So I would care that the  
> potential mess up that Haris mentions does not occur  because of  
> something lying around/defined  in the workspace by one or the  
> other of these different environments.
> And yes, I know that I can use the maths bundle for some  
> calculation, but I for one feel comfortable using R even for these  
> since I can save the variables eg if I am doing sample size  
> calculations.
>
> danstan