Message-ID: <4592BBD3.9050109@vanderbilt.edu>
Date: 2006-12-27T18:30:43Z
From: Frank E Harrell Jr
Subject: how to suppress a "loading required package: ..." message
In-Reply-To: <17810.45032.805061.648736@basebud.nulle.part>
Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 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)
For that one, do options(Hverbose=FALSE) before library(Hmisc)
Frank
> > sink()
> > cat("Hi again\n")
> Hi again
> >
>
> Hth, Dirk
>
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Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine
Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University