Disable messages upon loading a package

Question

I have a package in R (ROCR) that I need to load in my R environment. Upon loading the package, a set of messages are printed. This is ordinarily fine, but since the outpu

Answer 1

Use suppressPackageStartupMessages, see the answer by @MehradMahmoudian. For completeness, adding examples of usage:

For one library, use suppressPackageStartupMessages(...), for example:

suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(ggplot2))

For multiple libraries, use suppressPackageStartupMessages({...}), for example:

suppressPackageStartupMessages({
    library(ggplot2)
    library(ggdendro)
})