[R] Changing R opening message

[Erik Iverson]

gvrocha wrote:
>   Hi,
>   
>   I am using some python code to execute small R code snippets.
>   I would like to save the messages output to the screen when R is executed.
>   However, I will just save the opening message a zillion times since many
> thousands of little snippets will be executed.
>   
>   Does anyone how to omit the opening message printed by R when it first
> opens?
>   In case, you don't know what opening message I am talking about, see
> example below.

See Appendix B (Invoking R) in "An Introduction to R" for the valid 
command-line options when starting R.