You need to provide some more information:  what version of R are you using,
what is your operating system, what does sessionInfo() show.  Have you tried
starting up a vanilla version of R to see if there is something
interferring.

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:21 AM, khadeeja ismail <hajjja@yahoo.com> wrote:

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>  My version of R is not silent:
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> > setwd("/notHere")
> Error in base::setwd(dir) : cannot change working directory
> > library(is notHere)
> Error in library(notHere) : there is no package called 'notHere'
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> That is the exact problem.
> If I type the above commands, R says nothing and just displays the prompt.
> > setwd("/notHere")
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> > library(is notHere)
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> ...and it is so annoying :\
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> Hajja
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> Can you give the specific context in which you are using it.
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> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:54 AM, khadeeja ismail <hajjja@yahoo.com<http://mc/compose?to=hajjja@yahoo.com>>
> wrote:
> > Dear List,
> >
> > How can I get R to display error messages, for example, if I try to
> change to a non-existent directory or try to load a library that is not
> installed? Currently R is very silent. I did fix the problem once using
> 'options' (show.error.messages, I think), but id doesn't seem to be working
> any more, and R doesn't tell me if I have an error in my command.
> > Please let me know how I can fix this.
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> > Regards,
> > Hajja
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