Can the print() command in R be quieted?

Question

In R some functions can print information and return values, can the print be silenced?

For example:

print.and.return <- function() {
  print(\"foo\         


        

Answer 1

I know that I might be resurrecting this post but someone else might find it as I did. I was interested in the same behaviour in one of my functions and I just came across "invisibility":

It has the same use of return() but it just don't print the value returned:

invisible(variable)

Thus, for the example given by @ayman:

print.and.return2 <- function() {
  message("foo")
  invisible("bar")
}