echo output to screen

Is something like this what you want?

load_and_describe <- function(pkg) {

+     eval(substitute(library(pkg)))
+     packageDescription(pkg)
+ }

load_and_describe("e1071")

Package: e1071
Version: 1.5-12
Date: 2006-01-11
Title: Misc Functions of the Department of Statistics (e1071), TU Wien
Depends: class
Imports: graphics, stats
Suggests: cluster, mlbench, nnet, randomForest, rpart, SparseM, xtable
Author: Evgenia Dimitriadou, Kurt Hornik, Friedrich Leisch, David
        Meyer, and Andreas Weingessel
Maintainer: Friedrich Leisch <Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at>
Description: Functions for latent class analysis, short time Fourier
        transform, fuzzy clustering, support vector machines, shortest
        path computation, bagged clustering, naive Bayes classifier,
        ...
License: GPL version 2.  See COPYRIGHT.svm.cpp for the copyright of the
        svm C++ code.
SaveImage: no
LazyLoad: yes
Packaged: Wed Jan 11 17:37:06 2006; leisch
Built: R 2.2.1; i386-pc-mingw32; 2006-01-12 09:52:56; windows


Andy


From: Chun-Ying Lee

On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:02:49 +0100, Uwe Ligges wrote

Chun-Ying Lee wrote:

Hi all,
 
  I want to echo output to screen before next step, 
like the following when i type library(pkname),

library(pkname)

a few description about the package
........

how should I do to get this?

?cat

I know the use of "cat"

but I mean that the description appear automatically
when I type library(pkname)

Uwe Ligges

Thanks in advanced!!