From: Bill Dunlap
>
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Peter Ruckdeschel wrote:
> >
> > > Hi R-devels,
> > >
> > > in "Writing R extensions" as well as in the help
> > > to .onAttach(), you mention that one could
> > > use this function to issue a start-up message/banner
> > > for the package.
> > >
> > > My little wish for Easter:
> > >
> > > a 'quietly'-type argument for .onAttach() / .First.lib() which is
> > > passed through by functions
> > > require() and library() respectively,
> > > and by means of which one could optionally
> > > suppress this start-up message/banner .
> > >
> > > Is this hard to do?
> >
> > I believe so (and think we have been here before). The documented
> > call sequence is
> >
> > .onLoad(libname, pkgname)
> > .onAttach(libname, pkgname)
> >
> > the same as .First.lib. There is no way to add an argument
> here, as
> > many existing packages do not support it. Beyond that, how
> would you
> > pass the argument in? Namespaces and packages are often
> > loaded/attached implicitly as a result of loading other packages.
> >
> > I did think you could make use of an option to decide
> whether to the
> > print the message or not, but I have always assumed that
> those who did
> > want a banner probably did not want it suppressed.
>
> If the .onAttach() used message() instead of cat()
> to display the banner message then you could use
> suppressMessages(require("randomForest"))
> to squelch the message.
Thanks! This looks like a good alternative. What do others think of this
approach?
Andy
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