Thanks! The patch to src/modules/internet/internet.c in r44937 was just what I was looking for.
-roger Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Roger D. Peng wrote: > >> In Windows, 'download.file' pops up a separate window indicating the >> progress of the download (even when 'quiet = TRUE'). This is useful >> and informative when downloading a single (large) file. However, when >> downloading multiple (smaller) files in sucession, the constant >> flashing of the progress window can be a little disorienting (at least >> for me). >> >> Is there a way to suppress this progress window? Or is it an >> operating system >> feature? > > The write up was somewhat confusing. 'quiet=TRUE' suppresses the status > messages on all platforms, and the (text) progress bar. Only in R-devel > does it suppress the progress bar widget on Windows. > > That said, the main time I download many files is via update.packages() > or install.packages(), and there was no provision to set quiet=TRUE from > those: I've just added ... to allow that. > -- Roger D. Peng | http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~rpeng/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
