How to modify the start-up message

Hi Ron,

If all you want changed is the message, this seems like a cosmetic
issue.  If that is true, something like this may work where you just
send the unwanted messages to a temporary file and print your own:

require2 <- function(x) {
  junk <- file(file.path(tempdir(), "junk.txt"), open = "wt")
  sink(junk, type="message")
  eval(substitute(require(pkg), list(pkg = x)))
  sink(type="message")
  if (x == "vegan") {
    cat("The message I really want showing", fill = TRUE)
  }
}

require2("vegan")

You could rearrange so that it calls require() for most packages and
only does something special for the one package you want changed.

Cheers,

Josh

How to modify the start-up message

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