how to suppress a "loading required package: ..." message

On 27 December 2006 at 08:52, BBands wrote:
| On 12/27/06, jacinthe at gmx.de <jacinthe at gmx.de> wrote:
| > Hi,
| >
| > how to suppress a "loading required package:... " message?
| 
| require(package, quiet=TRUE)

Some packages insist on talking even when they are asked to be quiet, in
which case I have also resorted to wrapping sink() around the loading:

	> sink("/dev/null")
	> library(Hmisc)

	> sink()
	> cat("Hi again\n")

	Hi again

	> 

Hth, Dirk