[R] Supressing printing from a function: ecdf

[Patrick Burns]

If you do:

getAnywhere('summary.ecdf')

you will see the 'cat' statement that is doing
the printing that is annoying you.

It seems to me that a better definition of the
function would have an argument called something
like 'verbose' that controlled if the 'cat' statement
was executed.

I'm not sure of the best advice for the current
situation.


Patrick Burns
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tolga.i.uzuner at jpmorgan.com wrote:
> Dear R Users,
>
> I am trying to suppress the information printed by the ecdf function 
> during an assignment. Various alternatives have failed me so far:
>
>   
>> a=summary(ecdf(rnorm(100)))["1st Qu."]
>>     
> Empirical CDF:    100 unique values with summary
>   
>> invisible(a=summary(ecdf(rnorm(100)))["1st Qu."])
>>     
> Empirical CDF:    100 unique values with summary
>   
>> (function() invisible(a=summary(ecdf(rnorm(100)))["1st Qu."])) ()
>>     
> Empirical CDF:    100 unique values with summary
>   
>
> It's the "Empirical CDF:    100 unique values with summary" bit that I 
> would like to supress. Any way to achieve this result ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Tolga
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