According to the TWC forums, it's not reccomended, but patience is golden and the 5.2 ver of the mod should be out soon, eh?
Your other option is to double-load the game onto your 'puter, so you have one install for vanilla 1.2 and another for R:TRealism, which while a pain in the (etc) is doable if you rename your r:tw folders.
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