quiet: Silence R code

In oeli: Some Utilities for Developing Data Science Software

Silence R code

Description

This function silences warnings, messages and any cat() or print() output from R expressions or functions.

Usage

quiet(x, print_cat = TRUE, message = TRUE, warning = TRUE)

Arguments

x	[expression] Any function or expression or value assignment expression.
print_cat	[logical(1)] Silence print() and cat() outputs?
message	[logical(1)] Silence messages?
warning	[logical(1)] Silence warnings?

Value

Invisibly the expression x.

References

This function is a modified version of quiet.

See Also

Other function helpers: do.call_timed(), function_arguments(), function_body(), function_defaults(), timed(), try_silent(), variable_name()

Examples

f <- function() {
  warning("warning")
  message("message")
  cat("cat")
  print("print")
}
quiet(f())

oeli documentation built on Aug. 18, 2025, 5:24 p.m.