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 <- an
On 27 June 2025 at 17:21, Martin Maechler wrote:
| > Dirk Eddelbuettel
| > on Fri, 27 Jun 2025 09:22:36 -0500 writes:
|
| > The interactive() predicate is helpful in scripted environments. I
sometimes
| > also invoke R with '--quiet' and am unable to suppress messages from
> Dirk Eddelbuettel
> on Fri, 27 Jun 2025 09:22:36 -0500 writes:
> The interactive() predicate is helpful in scripted environments. I
sometimes
> also invoke R with '--quiet' and am unable to suppress messages from my
own
> startup code as I cannot test if this flag was
The interactive() predicate is helpful in scripted environments. I sometimes
also invoke R with '--quiet' and am unable to suppress messages from my own
startup code as I cannot test if this flag was set or not. (I can work around
it by setting an additional environment variable, but that is clun
