[Bioc-devel] Suppressing messages from Rprofile

[Henrik Bengtsson]

Correcting: the env var is R_LIBS_USER and nothing else.

/Henrik

On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 1:20 PM Henrik Bengtsson
<henrik.bengtsson using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Can you go via a temporary file instead, i.e. output what you want to
> grab to a temporary file and pull the info from that instead?
>
> Side tracking ...
>
> > I thought about using --vanilla but I use .Rprofile to set my library path,
> > so ignoring that file completely defeats the point in my setup.
>
> I'm a proponent of customizing the library path via .Renviron instead
> of via .Rprofile.  In your case, you can have a line in ~/.Renviron
> with:
>
>   R_USER_LIBS=~/R/%p-library/%v-bioc_3.12
>
> Alternatively, you can set it elsewhere, e.g. ~/.bashrc, in a Linux
> environment module that is loaded, and so on.
>
> BTW, using Rscript --no-init-file ... would skip .Rprofile while still
> parsing .Renviron.
>
> /Henrik
>
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 8:16 AM Mike Smith <grimbough using gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have the following line in the configure.ac for rhdf5filters, which
> > returns the location of the HDF5 headers distributed with Rhdf5lib:
> >
> > RHDF5_INCLUDE=`"${R_HOME}/bin${R_ARCH_BIN}/Rscript" -e
> > 'cat(system.file("include", package="Rhdf5lib"))'`
> >
> > For me the output is a path like
> >  /mnt/data/R-lib/4.0.3-bioc_3.12/Rhdf5lib/include, which gets inserted into
> > the package Makevars file, and the package compilation works.
> >
> > However I've had multiple reports (
> > https://github.com/grimbough/rhdf5filters/issues/11) where this doesn't
> > work, all of which seem to relate to messages printed when an Rprofile is
> > loaded.  They have well intentioned messages like below, which don't work
> > so well when passed as compiler flags
> >
> > [1] "[BMRC] You have sourced the BMRC Rprofile provided at
> > /apps/misc/R/bmrc-r-user-tools/Rprofile"
> > [1] "[BMRC] Messages coming from this file (like this one) will be
> > prefixed with [BMRC]"
> > [1] "[BMRC] You are running R on host <rescomp3.hpc.in.bmrc.ox.ac.uk>
> > with CPU <Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 v2 @ 2.60GHz>"
> > [1] "[BMRC] While running on this host, local R packages will be
> > sourced from and installed to
> > /well/combat/users/ifl143/R/4.0/ivybridge"
> > /gpfs3/well/combat/users/ifl143/R/4.0/ivybridge/Rhdf5lib/include
> >
> > I thought about using --vanilla but I use .Rprofile to set my library path,
> > so ignoring that file completely defeats the point in my setup.  Is anyone
> > aware of either a more reliable way of getting the information I want
> > (maybe suppressing messages, different mechanism entirely, etc)?
> > Alternatively, is there anything definitive in WRE or the like that
> > suggests printing messages Rprofile is a bad idea that I can pass on to the
> > users?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mike
> >
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> >
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