On Jun 11, 2012, at 10:15 AM, Peng Yu wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:47 AM, peter dalgaard <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Jun 11, 2012, at 13:04 , peter dalgaard wrote: >> >>> >>> On Jun 11, 2012, at 12:21 , Peng Yu wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> suppressPackageStartupMessages works in the GUI version of R on my >>>> Mac. But it does not work in the command line version of R. Could >>>> anybody take a look what is wrong with the command line version? >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>> .... >>>> >>>>> suppressMessages(library(MCMCpack)) >>>> ## >>>> ## Markov Chain Monte Carlo Package (MCMCpack) >>>> ## Copyright (C) 2003-2012 Andrew D. Martin, Kevin M. Quinn, and Jong Hee >>>> Park >>>> ## >>>> ## Support provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation >>>> ## (Grants SES-0350646 and SES-0350613) >>>> ## >>> >>> Not to put too fine a point on it: >>> >>>> suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(MCMCpack)) >>>> >>> >> >> (in which our ever beloved, user-friendly and helpful OSX Mail application >> has converted R's prompt character to a vertical bar, as if the ">" were >> indicating citation from a previous message. Therefore, it is not >> immediately obvious that the above command does indeed suppress package >> startup messages....) >> > > It is my mistake for putting the wrong command. Here is the output for > suppressPackageStartupMessages in the command line version R on Mac. > > I have had a second person to try it on his system. And he observed > the same behavior. Would you please try it on your system to see if > you get the same behavior? >
At least in (even old) R-patched it seems just fine: > suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(MCMCpack)) > sessionInfo() R version 2.15.0 Patched (2012-04-03 r58917) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit) locale: [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] MCMCpack_1.2-3 MASS_7.3-17 coda_0.14-7 lattice_0.20-6 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] grid_2.15.0 tools_2.15.0 Cheers, S >> suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(MCMCpack)) > ## > ## Markov Chain Monte Carlo Package (MCMCpack) > ## Copyright (C) 2003-2012 Andrew D. Martin, Kevin M. Quinn, and Jong Hee Park > ## > ## Support provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation > ## (Grants SES-0350646 and SES-0350613) > ## > > > ~$ R --version > R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30) > Copyright (C) 2012 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing > ISBN 3-900051-07-0 > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit) > > R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > You are welcome to redistribute it under the terms of the > GNU General Public License versions 2 or 3. > For more information about these matters see > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. > > > > -- > Regards, > Peng > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
