Disable/suppress tcltk popup for CRAN mirror selection in R

Question

My question is similar to a question previously posted but never really answered here:

Disable GUI, graphics devices in R

I do not like the R tcltk popups fo

Answer 1

Dirk provides ways to avoid the menus altogether, but to answer your question as posed, I think you want

options(menu.graphics=FALSE)

I tracked this option down by finding the class of objects returned from help (it's help_files_with_topic), scanning utils:::print.help_files_with_topic and finding the line

menu(txt, title = gettext("Choose one"), graphics = getOption("menu.graphics"))