Dear Uwe Many thanks for your reply. I agree with you but I need the silencing of output for a particular reason.
I am working on a statistical package called VOStat which uses a Java based GUI to get the data and parameters of the test to be executed from the user, creates the appropriate R script for it, runs it, and prints the output given by R. For a particular test, if the required library is not installed, the same is done dynamically without requiring any user input. Now the problem I face is as follows:- Suppose the user requires a correlation matrix of selected variables along with their p-values. For this, I use the 'rcorr' function of the library 'Hmisc'. If the user does not have 'Hmisc' available in his machine, it is automatically installed for him. Once the installation is done, the library is loaded and 'rcorr' is used for the necessary computation. But since I am presenting the entire output generated by the R script (which has the install function as well), along with the correlation matrices, the user of VOStat also gets to see the output of 'install.packages()', something I want to avoid. Could please suggest a workaround that could be used to get rid of the output? Thanks Tejas On Thursday 31 May 2012 08:00 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote: On 31.05.2012 16:18, Tejas Kale wrote: Hello! Is there a way to suppress the output of 'install.packages()'? I have seen that the 'download.file' function has a 'quiet' option but I do not know how to use it. I do not see any good reason to allow that. A user shoudl see if software is being installed. Uwe ligges Thanks for your help Tejas Kale IUCAA, Pune ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
