[R-SIG-Mac] suppressPackageStartupMessages() does not work on the command line version R (but works on the GUI version)

[peter dalgaard]

On Jun 11, 2012, at 13:04 , peter dalgaard wrote:

> 
> On Jun 11, 2012, at 12:21 , Peng Yu wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> suppressPackageStartupMessages works in the GUI version of R on my
>> Mac. But it does not work in the command line version of R. Could
>> anybody take a look what is wrong with the command line version?
>> Thanks!
>> 
> ....
>> 
>>> suppressMessages(library(MCMCpack))
>> ##
>> ## Markov Chain Monte Carlo Package (MCMCpack)
>> ## Copyright (C) 2003-2012 Andrew D. Martin, Kevin M. Quinn, and Jong Hee Park
>> ##
>> ## Support provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation
>> ## (Grants SES-0350646 and SES-0350613)
>> ##
> 
> Not to put too fine a point on it:
> 
>> suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(MCMCpack))
>> 
> 

(in which our ever beloved, user-friendly and helpful OSX Mail application has converted R's prompt character to a vertical bar, as if the ">" were indicating citation from a previous message. Therefore, it is not immediately obvious that the above command does indeed suppress package startup messages....)

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