[R] httr::content without message

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Tue Jan 2 18:44:13 CET 2018


> On Jan 2, 2018, at 9:30 AM, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal <roy.mendelssohn at noaa.gov> wrote:
> 
> Hi All:
> 
> I am using httr to download files form a service, in this case a .csv file.  When I use httr::content on the result,  I get a message.  Since this will be in a package.  I want to suppress the message,  but haven't figured out how to do so.
> 
> The following should reproduce the result:
> 
> myURL <- 'https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/griddap/erdMH1sstdmday.csvp?time[0:1:last]'
> r1 <- httr::GET(myURL)
> junk <- httr::content(r1)

Instead try:

junk <- suppressMessages(httr::content(r1))

> 

> when the last command is run, you get:
> 
> Parsed with column specification:
> cols(
>  `time (UTC)` = col_datetime(format = "")
> )
> 
> I want to suppress that output.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Roy
> 
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David Winsemius
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