[R] How to disable output messages (prints or cats) from functions in R?

[Miguel Ratón Almansa]

Hi,

I've tried it but I need the object returned by the function and if I 
use capture.output() I lose it because It returns a string, not the 
object. I want the returned object without the displaying information 
showed by the function. Something like suppressWarnings( ) but 
suppressing the standard output.

Miguel


Henrik Bengtsson escribió:
> See capture.output(). /H
>
> On 11/01/2008, Miguel Ratón Almansa <cibermike at telefonica.net> wrote:
>   
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I have to use a function that shows an output message like "# nonzero
>> coefficients ..." followed with a lot of numbers depending on the input.
>> This is very annoying because I have to run that function several times
>> and I don't want to show this information.
>>
>> What I want is to disable that display but I don't know how to do it.
>> I've tried it with suppressWarnings ( function (...) ) and
>> suppressMessages ( function (...) ) but It doesn't work, the function()
>> continues printing that information. I tried invisible () too.
>>
>> Furthermore, this function doesn't have a "verbose" parameter. Thus, I
>> can't disable it using a verbose parameter.
>>
>> I'm sure that there must be some procedure in R to do it but after
>> searching through the mailing lists I haven't found anything about it.
>>
>> Thank you for your help,
>> Miguel Ratón Almansa
>>
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