Thanks Martin, Simon and Brian,
They're all good suggestions for code that I write, however how can I suppress
stderr from pre-existing code. For instance, install.packages has 3 system
calls.
Perhaps a better worded question would be: how can I redirect the output of
this command:
install.pack
On 10/05/2011 02:36 AM, Mark Cowley wrote:
Dear list,
I'm trying to suppress/redirect/squash the output from commands like
install.packages, or download.file. The problem is that none of:
sink(..., type="message"), sink(..., type="output"), capture.output,
suppressMessages are quite doing the
See ?system2 to answer your subject line.
But you seem confused about external programs and R's own stdout()
connection. Have you read the R News article on connections?
On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Mark Cowley wrote:
Dear list,
I'm trying to suppress/redirect/squash the output from commands like in
See ?system, in particular ignore.stdout, ignore.stderr and intern.
Cheers,
Simon
On Oct 5, 2011, at 5:36 AM, Mark Cowley wrote:
> Dear list,
> I'm trying to suppress/redirect/squash the output from commands like
> install.packages, or download.file. The problem is that none of: sink(...,
> t
Dear list,
I'm trying to suppress/redirect/squash the output from commands like
install.packages, or download.file. The problem is that none of: sink(...,
type="message"), sink(..., type="output"), capture.output, suppressMessages are
quite doing the trick. Output gets written to the stderr stre
