Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0504111342510.6433@gannet.stats>
Date: 2005-04-11T12:47:55Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: How to suppress the printing of warnings (Windows)?
In-Reply-To: <44B42F3306B4BC4A9DBC8BDEE92947700291B7A5@exs1.backup>
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Jacho-Chavez,DT (pgr) wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm a newbie in R. I am running simulations using a fixed bandwidth in
> nonparametric regressions, sending all the output to a file myoutput.txt
> using sink("myoutput.txt"), & R is printing all warnings by the end of
> the simulation on the file. I know the source of the problem & can take
> care of it. However, finding a 50 MB file (where all the output is
> printed, e.g. myoutput.txt) by the end of the simulation exercise is not
> quite pleasant. How could I turn them off completely?, so they are not
> printed in myoutput.txt file.
options(warn=-1)
However, warnings and errors are sent to stderr not stdout except on
obselete versions (95/98/ME) of Windows, and so not redirected by that
sink() call. For me (Windows XP)
> sink("foo.out")
> warning("test")
Warning message:
test
as expected. So is this an obsolete version of Windows or a very old
version of R?
--
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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