[R] custom startup/welcome message

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 04/04/2013 21:31, R. Michael Weylandt wrote:
> 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


Hmm, removing other people's copyright notices is bad form, and against 
the licence if you distribute the modified version.

>
> 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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