confint.glm prints a message "Waiting for profiling to be done..." I could have sworn that there used to be an option (quiet = TRUE?) to turn this message off without resorting to suppressMessages() (finer/more specific control is always preferable ...) -- but on the basis of looking back at archived versions of MASS, and at this Stack Overflow post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43847705/how-do-i-silence-confint-in-r I think I was hallucinating. Do people think this would be a reasonable minor feature request/would a patch suggestion be considered? What would the best name for the argument be? (scan() has "quiet") pos <- tail(search(), 1) ## base package tt <- lapply(c(lsf.str(pos = pos)), \(x) names(formals(x))) |> unlist() |> table() > tt[["quiet"]] [1] 4 > tt[["silent"]] [1] 1 > tt[["verbose"]] [1] 9 cheers Ben Bolker