R help - Feb 2010 - suppress printing within a function

I'm working with a few functions (e.g. do.base.descriptions in the  
netstat package) that, in addition to returning an object with  
variables I want to extract, also print output.  There is no way to  
turn this default printing behavior off in many of the functions.

Is there a blanket way to suppress such printing, say, within a loop  
or a ddply statement?

Thanks!

-Jarrett




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Jarrett Byrnes
Postdoctoral Associate, Santa Barbara Coastal LTER
Marine Science Institute
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6150
http://www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/eemb/labs/cardinale/people/byrnes/index.html


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On Feb 16, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Jarrett Byrnes wrote:
> I'm working with a few functions (e.g. do.base.descriptions in the
> netstat package) that, in addition to returning an object with
> variables I want to extract, also print output.  There is no way to
> turn this default printing behavior off in many of the functions.
>
> Is there a blanket way to suppress such printing, say, within a loop
> or a ddply statement?
?capture.output
?sink

>
> Thanks!
>
> -Jarrett


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Heritage Laboratories
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