[BioC] convert library for microarrays data

Seth Falcon sfalcon at fhcrc.org
Fri Sep 1 20:22:37 CEST 2006


Alastair Droop <apd500 at york.ac.uk> writes:

> I found the bioconductor message annoying enough to track down and remove.
>
> The message is displayed from within the .onAttach function within the 
> Biobase package.

It uses the message function so that you can do:

suppressMessages(library("Biobase"))

Or for many packages:

suppressMessages({
        library("p1")
        library("p2")
})


>
> File: $RHOME/library/Biobase/R/all.rda (On my intel MAC)
>
> Commenting out the message lines stops the startup message.
>
> 1) Backup original all.rda
> 2) Clear all packages from the search path except "package:base" and 
> ".GlobalEnv"
> 3) load all.rda
> 4) paste in altered .onAttach function
> 5) save(list=ls(all.names=T), 'all.rda')
>
> I'm sure there are better ways of changing one function within a data 
> file, but this one worked for me.  Hope this helps!

Seems ok to me.  

Does anyone _like_ the banner message or find it useful?

+ seth



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