R help - Oct 2005 - suppress messages on loading its

On loading the package: its, I get the "Creating a new generic
function for" messages below even when I wrap the call with
capture.output. Is there a way to suppress these messages?
> dummy=capture.output( library(its) )
Creating a new generic function for 'names' in 'its'
Creating a new generic function for 'names<-' in 'its'
Creating a new generic function for 'print' in 'its'
Creating a new generic function for 'start' in 'its'
Creating a new generic function for 'end' in 'its'
Creating a new generic function for 'summary' in 'its'
Creating a new generic function for 'diff' in 'its'
Creating a new generic function for 'union' in 'its'
Creating a new generic function for 'intersect' in 'its'

Those messages mean it has not been installed correctly -- they should 
occur during installation only.

They are written to the message connection, which capture.output does not 
mess with (but sink can).

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Omar Lakkis wrote:
> On loading the package: its, I get the "Creating a new generic
> function for" messages below even when I wrap the call with
> capture.output. Is there a way to suppress these messages?
>
>> dummy=capture.output( library(its) )
> Creating a new generic function for 'names' in 'its'
> Creating a new generic function for 'names<-' in 'its'
> Creating a new generic function for 'print' in 'its'
> Creating a new generic function for 'start' in 'its'
> Creating a new generic function for 'end' in 'its'
> Creating a new generic function for 'summary' in 'its'
> Creating a new generic function for 'diff' in 'its'
> Creating a new generic function for 'union' in 'its'
> Creating a new generic function for 'intersect' in 'its'
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