[R-SIG-Finance] How to suppress getSymbols error message

[Michael Weylandt]

You can use a sink(NULL) (R equivalent of >/dev/null) to suppress all
output temporarily.

As far as I know, there's no simple way to just catch this one cat().

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 12:34 AM, George Kumar <grgkumar4 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using getSymbols to with the following options:
>
> setDefaults(getSymbols,src='csv')
>
> The problem is that when it cannot find the file locally it gives an error
> message like the following:
>
> file  abcd.csv does not exist  in   ....skipping ..
>
> It is coming from the following lines of source code:
>
>  if(!file.exists(sym.file)) {
>       cat("\nfile ",paste(Symbols[[i]],extension,sep='.')," does not exist ",
>           "in ",dir,"....skipping\n")
>       next
>  }
>
> If would have been nice if the cat statement above was under a if (verbose)
>
> check.
>
> Anyway to suppress this message ? I have tried using try statement too.
> Still no luck.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> George
>
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