Open HenrikBengtsson opened 9 years ago
Those messages are sent to standard output by the utils
package.
I've inquired about this in R-devel thread '[Rd] install.packages() / update.packages() sometimes outputs to stdout and sometimes to stderr [and menu() & readline()]' on 2015-05-17.
The 'install' script outputs also to std. out. This renders it "useless" in report generators, since such output will clutter up the report. Should be redirected to std. err., e.g.