Make geom smooth less chatty. Fixes #1247

Author: hadley

NEWS

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 ggplot2 1.0.1.9xxx
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+* `geom_smooth()` is no longer so chatty. If you want to know what the deafult
+  smoothing method is, look it up in the documentation! (#1247)
+
 * `geom_smooth()`/`stat_smooth()` no longer pass ... on to the
   underlying model. Instead, put additional arguments in `method.args` (#1245).
 

R/stat-smooth.r

@@ -61,12 +61,6 @@ StatSmooth <- ggproto("StatSmooth", Stat,
     # gam with a cubic regression basis for large data
     # This is based on the size of the _largest_ group.
     if (identical(params$method, "auto")) {
-      message(
-        '`geom_smooth()`: For groups with <1000 observations, using ',
-        '`method = "loess"` with `span = 0.75`,\n otherwise ',
-        '`method = "gam"` with `formula = y ~ s(x, bs = "cs")`.'
-      )
-
       max_group <- max(table(data$group))
 
       if (max_group < 1000) {