Recently in R-devel, I've noticed that when I start up R, code in
.Rprofile (in the working directory) gets sourced but any messages printed
out by that code (e.g. by `cat') are printed *before* the introductory
statement about R.
For example, if I put the line
library(KernSmooth)
in my .Rprofile file, I get
artemis:> R
KernSmooth 2.22 installed
Copyright M. P. Wand 1997
R : Copyright 2003, The R Development Core Team
Version 1.7.0 Under development (unstable) (2003-03-04)
R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type `license()' or `licence()' for distribution details.
[...]
>
I assume this is because of the order in which packages are loaded. I was
wondering if this behavior is desired? I couldn't find anything in
?Startup.
Obviously not a critical issue but it seems a bit odd. Of course, if I
wrap everything with a call to .First() in my .Rprofile file, then the
package gets loaded last and the corresponding messages are printed last.
I'm using
> version
_
platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch i686
os linux-gnu
system i686, linux-gnu
status Under development (unstable)
major 1
minor 7.0
year 2003
month 03
day 04
language R
-roger
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