[R] suppress messages on loading its

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de
Fri Oct 21 08:57:49 CEST 2005


Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> Those messages mean it has not been installed correctly -- they should 
> occur during installation only.
> 
> They are written to the message connection, which capture.output does not 
> mess with (but sink can).
> 
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Omar Lakkis wrote:
> 
> 
>>On loading the package: its, I get the "Creating a new generic
>>function for" messages below even when I wrap the call with
>>capture.output. Is there a way to suppress these messages?
>>
>>
>>>dummy=capture.output( library(its) )
>>
>>Creating a new generic function for 'names' in 'its'
>>Creating a new generic function for 'names<-' in 'its'
>>Creating a new generic function for 'print' in 'its'
>>Creating a new generic function for 'start' in 'its'
>>Creating a new generic function for 'end' in 'its'
>>Creating a new generic function for 'summary' in 'its'
>>Creating a new generic function for 'diff' in 'its'
>>Creating a new generic function for 'union' in 'its'
>>Creating a new generic function for 'intersect' in 'its'
> 
> 


Another issue is that "its" currently does not pass the CRAN checks 
neither for R-release nor R-devel (but looks like it passes for 
R-patched since a couple of days now).

Uwe Ligges




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