[R] custom startup/welcome message

[Tyler Rinker]

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> Fom: michael.weylandt at gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 15:31:31 -0500
> To: peljasz at yahoo.co.uk
> CC: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] custom startup/welcome message
>
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:49 AM, lejeczek <peljasz at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > yeap, I've done it,
> > I was hoping for a complete customization,
> > and even Rprofile.site adds only to what is being printed by default anyway,
> > I mean that header is always there. R version..... untill "Type 'q()'..
> > and R -q silences everything :(
> >
>
> I'm not sure what the question is now (and please "context post"
> instead of top-posting) -- I suppose you could patch the C code that
> prints that message if you want it to say something else. You'd have
> to re-build R but it's easy code to change.
>
> It's at the top of $R_HOME/src/main/version.c:
> http://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/main/version.c
>
> Michael
>
> >
> >
> > On 04/04/13 15:01, Michael Weylandt wrote:
> >>
> >> On Apr 4, 2013, at 6:20, lejeczek <peljasz at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >>> hi everybody
> >>>
> >>> I wonder if there is a simple way, but not simple would be
> >>> ok too,
> >>> to customize info/welcome page at session start time?
> >>
> >> Probably easiest to do it by way of some cat() calls in your .Rprofile.
> >> See ?Startup for details.
> >>
> >> MW
> >>
> >>> what I'd like to do is to put together simple short howto /
> >>> dos & don'ts page for users,
> >>> I'm thinking it would be great if it was possible
> >>>
> >>> many thanks
> >>>
> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> >>>
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