How can you always suppress messages in R?

Question

The most common place I\'ve seen messages used in R is in the starting of a package. Suppressing one function\'s worth of messages is easily accomplished with suppres

Answer 1

Use the type parameter in sink

# Open a file to send messages to
zz <- file("messages.Rout", open = "wt")
# Divert messages to that file
sink(zz, type = "message")
message("not gonna show up in console")