On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:03 PM, craigcitro <craigci...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Is there a way to suppress the output of 'install.packages()'? I have >>> seen that the 'download.file' function has a 'quiet' option but I do >>> not know how to use it. >> >> I do not see any good reason to allow that. A user should see if >> software is being installed. > > Hi Uwe, > > I have a proposed use-case. We run a series of unit tests in R, and want to > plug them into various continuous build/test frameworks. Part of our system > involves being able to install packages, so we need to actually run a unit > test that uses `install.packages`. For better or worse, many of these depend > on parsing the output of a test run; it's a lot of silly work to make them > parse the additional `install.packages` output (as opposed to the much > simpler `[\w]+: \.+` output from something like testthat in the case of > success). > > Two questions: > * Is there another workaround? I'm planning on some ugly hackery on our > side to deal with this, but would love something cleaner. > * If I were willing to write the patch, would turning these statements into > something we could suppress be acceptable for R?
I think this has already been done in r59493ff of the svn repos by the indefatigable Prof. Ripley Best, Michael > > Thanks! > -cc > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Silencing-the-output-of-install-packages-tp4631947p4635525.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
