You should be able to suppress them with suppressPackageStartupMessages() but not all packages produce startup messages in the approved manner.
Hadley On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Saiwing Yeung <[email protected]> wrote: > For example, if I call "library(spam)", I would get messages like this > > Package 'spam' is loaded. Spam version 0.27-0 (2011-08-17). > Type demo( spam) for some demos, help( Spam) for an overview > of this package. > Help for individual functions is optained by adding the > suffix '.spam' to the function name, e.g. 'help(chol.spam)'. > > Attaching package: ‘spam’ > > The following object(s) are masked from ‘package:base’: > > backsolve, forwardsolve, norm > > > While I understand that it's helpful to see these message at times, most of > the time I already knew these information, especially when I run things from > a script. The bigger problem is that it clutters up the output and makes it > harder to notice if there are real problems. I have tried "library(spam, > warn.conflicts=T, quietly=F, verbose=F)" but it didn't help at all. Are there > other ways to hide these messages? Thank you. > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
