[R] how to suppress a "loading required package: ..." message

Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org
Wed Dec 27 18:39:52 CET 2006


On 27 December 2006 at 08:52, BBands wrote:
| On 12/27/06, jacinthe at gmx.de <jacinthe at gmx.de> wrote:
| > Hi,
| >
| > how to suppress a "loading required package:... " message?
| 
| require(package, quiet=TRUE)

Some packages insist on talking even when they are asked to be quiet, in
which case I have also resorted to wrapping sink() around the loading:

	> sink("/dev/null")
	> library(Hmisc)
	> sink()
	> cat("Hi again\n")
	Hi again
	> 

Hth, Dirk

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