[R] custom startup/welcome message

[lejeczek]

On 04/05/13 03:43, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 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,
copyright, copyleft, it's not about it, if it was then we 
probably would not be discussing it, for.. there probably 
would not had been R in the first place.
I'm sure everybody here greatly appreciate open source, I 
have no doubts about is, massive respect, we all contribute, 
no need to preach it.
Jim,
I was afraid that would be the last resort, Rprofile, as I 
understand it, cannot alter this very first "welcome" 
message, can add to it but not change it.
maybe somewhere in R code though, no?
practicalities dictate terms I'm trying to work with, hoping 
this limited space for text, R-studio in my case, I can make 
more "useful"
and it's Linux it all runs on

regards everybody

>>
>> 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
>>>>>
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>>>>>
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