Dear Brian,
On 20 February 2007 at 07:46, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
| Some packages have their own option-like mechanism, e.g. sm.
| Others use environment variables for this purpose.
| And there are userhooks for .First.lib, .onLoad and .onAttach that could
| be exploited.
Ah, now I see setHook() et al. Interesting, thanks. Won't help in my case --
I need to load a library without triggering some code branches, eg inits of
compiled code. I may just have to split my library, or do something else.
| In the Hmisc case, you are talking about messages, I believe. You can
| handle those via message classes. The latter is not as easy as I would
| like (and is currently under discussion), but in this particular case the
| message class 'packageStartupMessage' of R >= 2.5.0 seems to be what is
| wanted.
|
| library() does not have a ... argument, so you cannot do what your subject
| line suggests. Since library() is scheduled to be replaced by use()
| sometime Real Soon Now, it is not being enhanced but I think this is part
| of the goals for use().
Interesting too -- that should be Real Useful Real Soon Now.
Thanks, Dirk
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