[R] Suppressing output (e.g. from cat)
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Tue Jun 24 13:15:18 CEST 2008
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Richard Pearson wrote:
> Wacek, many thanks! I'm wondering however whether this will be problematic on
> Windows (I have no windows box to hand to check this, but am creating a
> package that I would like to be cross-platform)?
It will fail. But
sink(tempfile())
...
sink()
is portable (and sink("nul:") works on Windows only).
> Richard.
>
> Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote:
>> Richard Pearson wrote:
>>> Is it possible to temporarily suspend output? I am using a function
>>> that gives lots of output using cat, that is not very informative. Is
>>> it possible to turn output off, run the function, then turn output
>>> back on again? I've looked at ?options and done various RSiteSearch()s
>>> but couldn't find a way to do this.
>>>
>>
>> sink("/dev/null")
>>
>> ?sink
>>
>> vQ
>
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