[R] Silencing the output of install.packages()

Thu May 31 16:30:12 CEST 2012

On 31.05.2012 16:18, Tejas Kale wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Is there a way to suppress the output of 'install.packages()'? I have
> seen that the 'download.file' function has a 'quiet' option but I do
> not know how to use it.

I do not see any good reason to allow that. A user shoudl see if 
software is being installed.

Uwe ligges

> Thanks for your help
>
> Tejas Kale
> IUCAA, Pune
>
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