Is there a way to suppress MOTD when starting up R?

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R loads a long and redundant message every time I start up. Is there a way to clear this using a command in my .rprofile?

Currently I just let it load then press ⌘ + L to clear it but it would be nice to just do it automatically.

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 15 '11 at 23:44

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How about the --quiet startup option? For me on Ubuntu :

$ R --quiet
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answered Mar 15 '11 at 23:44

Matt Dowle

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Just in case this sends anyone else looking for a list of the command line arguments for R, they're [here](http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.html#Invoking-R-from-the-command-line). – Matt Parker Mar 16 '11 at 00:00
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Is there a way to make this --quiet mode the default behavior? – Zhang18 Dec 19 '11 at 16:16
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In Linux try `alias R='R --quiet'` – Matt Dowle Dec 19 '11 at 19:18

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