R help - Apr 2005 - environment variables

In R, is there any  way  that I can let R not printing out the "Read 4 
items " message?

 > a<-scan("probes.txt")
Read 4 items


Thanks
Hua LI

use quiet=T
help("scan")
norm 

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In R, is there any  way  that I can let R not printing out the "Read 4
items
" message?

 > a<-scan("probes.txt")
Read 4 items


Thanks
Hua LI

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Well, you could always wrap it in

sink(...)
scan(...)
sink()

I suppose.

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Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics
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> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 12:32 PM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] environment variables
> 
> 
> In R, is there any  way  that I can let R not printing out 
> the "Read 4 
> items " message?
> 
>  > a<-scan("probes.txt")
> Read 4 items
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Hua LI
> 
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Hua Li <hli at vbi.vt.edu> writes:
> In R, is there any  way  that I can let R not printing out the "Read 4
> items " message?
> 
>  > a<-scan("probes.txt")
> Read 4 items
Yes, and ?scan tells you how to make it quiet almost immediately!

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