title: How can I suppress the output to console when importing packages in RPy2 in Python?
body: <p>Whenever I run a script importing packages with <code>import</code> in RPy2 in Python, there are always some extra lines popping up in the console. I pasted in an example below. How can I suppress that behavior?</p>
  
  <pre><code>CookieJar:r cookies$ python script.py 
  
      ‘tseries’ version: 0.10-24
  
      ‘tseries’ is a package for time series analysis and computational
      finance.
  
      See ‘library(help="tseries")’ for details.
  </code></pre>