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Silencing the output of install.packages()

2 messages · Tejas Kale, Uwe Ligges

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Hello!

Is there a way to suppress the output of 'install.packages()'? I have
seen that the 'download.file' function has a 'quiet' option but I do
not know how to use it.

Thanks for your help

Tejas Kale
IUCAA, Pune
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On 31.05.2012 16:18, Tejas Kale wrote:
I do not see any good reason to allow that. A user shoudl see if 
software is being installed.

Uwe ligges