I'm currently writing a .Rprofile, and I can't seem to get rid of specific parts of the startup messages in the console.
First of all, I would like to either suppress or skip the version info at the start of a new R session.
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Another thread showed how to suppress the message when starting R from the console, but is it also possible when loading a project inside RStudio? Three years ago someone said it was on the devs to-do-list.
I tried a different approach by beginning my .Rprofile with cat("\014") (as shown here), but this somehow clears the console including messages that are printed afterwards.
Here's the relevant code:
cat("\014")
# A fun welcome message
message("Hi, welcome to your Data Analysis Project")
if(interactive())
try(fortunes::fortune(), silent = TRUE)
With this, I end up with a completely empty console at startup.
Ultimately, I would like to end up with this console at startup:
Hi, welcome to your Data Analysis Project
Uwe Ligges: I just told nonsense, stepclass() does not make sense with
randomForest(), obviously ... (wonder why nobody shouted?).
Douglas Bates: Oh, we're just so used to you talking nonsense that we don't
bother to point it out any more :-)
-- Uwe Ligges and Douglas Bates
R-help (July 2005)
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