Perfect! That did it, and I learned a new function :)

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 2:49 PM, John Fox <jfox@mcmaster.ca> wrote:

> Dear Dustin and Steve,
>
> For some reason, I didn't see Dustin's original message.
>
> As documented in ?sem, the warn argument to sem() covers only warnings
> directly produced by the optimizer,
>
>         "warn: if TRUE, warnings produced by the optimization function will
> be printed. This should generally not be necessary, since sem prints its
> own
> warning, and saves information about convergence. The default is FALSE."
>
> It doesn't cover the warnings produced by sem() itself. For that, you can
> do
> as Steve suggests, or simply set options(warn = -1). The debug argument is
> FALSE by default and if TRUE prints the iteration history and some
> additional information; it is irrelevant to warnings.
>
> I hope this helps,
>  John
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> John Fox
> Senator McMaster Professor of Social Statistics
> Department of Sociology
> McMaster University
> Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: r-help-bounces@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-project.org]
> > On Behalf Of Steve Taylor
> > Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 3:22 PM
> > To: Dustin Fife; r-help
> > Subject: Re: [R] sem package, suppress warnings
> >
> > Have you tried
> >
> > suppressWarnings(sem(mod, S = as.matrix(dataset), N = 1000, maxiter =
> > 10000, warn = FALSE))
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: r-help-bounces@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-
> > project.org] On
> > > Behalf Of Dustin Fife
> > > Sent: Saturday, 19 January 2013 5:32a
> > > To: r-help
> > > Subject: [R] sem package, suppress warnings
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm using the sem package under conditions where I know beforehand
> > that
> > > several models will be problematic. Because of that, I want to
> > suppress
> > > warnings. I've used the following code
> > >
> > > sem(mod, S = as.matrix(dataset), N = 1000, maxiter = 10000,
> > >             warn = FALSE)
> > >
> > > But I still get warnings. I've also tried adding "check.analytic =
> > FALSE,
> > > debug = FALSE," and that doesn't seem to do it either. Any ideas why
> > it's
> > > not working?
> > >
> > > It may be important to note that the command above is wrapped within a
> > > function and I'm using "try()" to avoid errors.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance!
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Dustin Fife
> > > PhD Student
> > > Quantitative Psychology
> > > University of Oklahoma
> > >
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