suppress messages displayed by “print” instead of “message” or “warning” in R

Question

Many R packages I work with involve functions that give all their messages and warnings through commands to print() calls rather than commands to message() or warning(). I\

Answer 1

Well, those packages are buggy to start with. Use of print() for anything but side-effect in print implementations is a serious mistake.

That said, you can simply use capture.output() to collect the output from such code instead of printing it. So for the above it would be

capture.output(x <- silly_developer_function(...))
print(x)