Hi Marie and Gavin, I do remember there is some command doing "silent", so to suppress output (as if directing it to sink, but not really directing it anywhere). The problem is I don't remember the command at the moment - but some searching might yield you results.
Cheers, Tal ----------------Contact Details:------------------------------------------------------- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | www.r-statistics.com (English) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Gavin Simpson <gavin.simp...@ucl.ac.uk>wrote: > On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 14:52 -0300, Marie-Hélène Ouellette wrote: > > Dear all, > > I've been away for several weeks but I don't see an answer on the list > so... > > > I was wondering if there is a simple way to avoid printing the multiple > > cross-validation automatic output to the console of recursive > partitionning > > functions like rpart or mvpart. For example... > > Unfortunately, no. These messages are hardcoded in the mvpart function > and printed using cat( ) calls. This is unfortunate as a verbose or > trace argument and appropriate if(verbose) statements before these calls > to cat would have allowed you to turn off the statements printed. > > One way to achieve something similar would be to use sink() and then > unlink() the file to which output has been diverted. (unlinking a file > deletes it.) > > > sink("foo.FOO") > > mod <- mvpart(data.matrix(spider[,1:12])~herbs+reft+moss+sand+twigs > +water,spider,xv="1se",xvmult=100) > > sink() > > unlink("foo.FOO") > > Depends on what you had in mind and why you wanted to suppress the > output. > > You could do > > fix(mvpart) > > and edit the function to remove the calls to cat() as required. > > > > data(spider) > > > > > > mvpart(data.matrix(spider[,1:12])~herbs+reft+moss+sand+twigs+water,spider,xv="1se",xvmult=100) > > *X-Val rep : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 > 18 > > 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 > 37 > > 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 > 56 > > 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 > 75 > > 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 > 94 > > 95 96 97 98 99 100 > > Minimum tree sizes > > tabmins > > 4 6 7 8 > > 2 18 78 2 * > > > > ... loosing what's in bold ? > > HTML mail is not advocated on this list, and in plain text, all the bold > formatting is lost. > > HTH > > G > > > Thank you for your time, > > MH > > > > [[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. > > -- > %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% > Dr. Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 > ECRC, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 > Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk > Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ > UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk > %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% > > ______________________________________________ > 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]]
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