trinker/pacman

Enable/Disable Package Startup messages

pgensler opened this issue · 4 comments

pgensler commented

Would it be possible to have a flag in p_load to enable/ disable package startup messages? I noticed when using dplyr with p_load, no messages appear. Is this a bug, or is that behavior intentional?

Dasonk commented

I believe it was our intention as we find them noisy. At one point I thought we were going to add in a parameter to give the user more control but apparently never got around to it.

trinker commented

@Dasonk yes I thought there was an arg that made the install more or less verbose. There is not. We indeed did discuss that this would be the case and should be implemented.

Dasonk commented

I think we talked about a silent parameter at some point. But thinking back I'm not sure if we even included package startup messages in our consideration and that was more or less to control the messages we were going to print about which packages loaded successfully or unsuccessfully. Either way i think we agree that having better control over the information printed would be a good thing and I'll attach a feature request tag to this.

pgensler commented

Hi Dasonk, I agree that it might be helpful to have a silent parameter default as true, and let the user change if necessary. Thanks for the consideration.