>>>>> Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengts...@ucsf.edu>
>>>>> on Sat, 9 May 2015 13:57:12 -0700 writes:
> Calling library(..., quietly=TRUE) may still output:
> Loading required package: <other pkg>
> in some cases, e.g.
>> library("R.utils", quietly=TRUE)
> Loading required package: R.methodsS3
> [...]
> I traced this to base:::.getRequiredPackages2(), which forgets to pass
> 'quietly' to an internal library() call:
> if (!attached) {
> if (!quietly)
> packageStartupMessage(gettextf("Loading required package: %s",
> pkg), domain = NA)
> library(pkg, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE,
> lib.loc = lib.loc) || stop(gettextf("package %s could not be loaded",
> sQuote(pkg)), call. = FALSE, domain = NA)
> }
> It's from that library() call the message is generated.
> Here's a patch:
> $ svn diff src\library\base\R\library.R
> Index: src/library/base/R/library.R
> ===================================================================
> --- src/library/base/R/library.R (revision 68345)
> +++ src/library/base/R/library.R (working copy)
> @@ -871,7 +871,7 @@
> packageStartupMessage(gettextf("Loading required package: %s",
> pkg), domain = NA)
> library(pkg, character.only = TRUE, logical.return = TRUE,
> - lib.loc = lib.loc) ||
> + lib.loc = lib.loc, quietly = quietly) ||
> stop(gettextf("package %s could not be loaded", sQuote(pkg)),
> call. = FALSE, domain = NA)
> }
> I can submit it via http://bugs.r-project.org/ if preferred.
No. It's easier that way -- already in the R-devel sources,
thank you Henrik.
Martin
> Thanks,
> Henrik
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