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

[Peng Yu]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:47 AM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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....)
>

It is my mistake for putting the wrong command. Here is the output for
suppressPackageStartupMessages in the command line version R on Mac.

I have had a second person to try it on his system. And he observed
the same behavior. Would you please try it on your system to see if
you get the same behavior?

> suppressPackageStartupMessages(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)
##


~$ R --version
R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
Copyright (C) 2012 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)

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-- 
Regards,
Peng