Thanks to Martin for additional off-list discussion; this is now addressed 'both ways' as I did file bug report #18913 with the short patch but also have a short check in .Rprofile serving the same purpose:
## interactive sessions get a fortune cookie (needs fortunes package) quiet <- any(!is.na(match(c("-q", "--quiet"), commandArgs()))) if (interactive() && !quiet && requireNamespace("fortunes", quietly=TRUE)) print(fortunes::fortune()) This could be made a little better with #18913 to provide quiet() but already works. Now, when I use '-q' in startup no fortune is shown as desired. Cheers, Dirk -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel