[R] How do I force confint() for glm() to be quiet?

[Hans Ekbrand]

On 2012-03-09 15:30, David Winsemius wrote:
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> On Mar 9, 2012, at 6:14 AM, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
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>> I need confint() for glm() to supress the messages
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> I'm wondering if suppressMessages would be helpful? Which in turn 
> suggests that you do not know how to use "??", so firt you should get 
> in the habit of doing a helpSearch before posting.
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> ??"suppress messages"
OK, noted.
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>> "Waiting for profiling to be done..."
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>> because they mess up the caching mechanism of pgfSweave (see
>> https://github.com/cameronbracken/pgfSweave/issues/40).
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>> I have read the help page of confint(), but I do not know how to get
>> the help page for the glm() version, if any such help page exists.
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> When I type ?confint.glm at my console I get this help page:
Ah, I tried ?confint.lm without success and didn't go further.
> If suppressMessages is not effective then look at:
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> ?sink
OK, but since suppressMessages works, I'll stick to that.

> Grrrr. A _minimal_ example would have had fewer iterations,
Sorry.
> but this does seem to be effective:
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> suppressMessages(my.results <- confint(my.fit))
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Thanks!