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How to suppress the printing of warnings (Windows)?

4 messages · Jacho-Chavez,DT (pgr), Dimitris Rizopoulos, Andy Bunn +1 more

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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.

Thanks in advanced for your help.


David
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try,

options(warn=-1)

I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jacho-Chavez,DT (pgr)" <D.T.Jacho-Chavez at lse.ac.uk>
To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 2:14 PM
Subject: [R] How to suppress the printing of warnings (Windows)?
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Look at ?options and scroll to 'warn.' Also, ?warnings gives an example.


HTH, Andy
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On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Jacho-Chavez,DT (pgr) wrote:

            
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)
Warning message:
test

as expected.  So is this an obsolete version of Windows or a very old 
version of R?