You can suppress all messages from that command with junk <- suppressMessages(httr::content(r1))
If you only want to suppress that specific message you can use withCallingHandlers: junk <- withCallingHandlers( httr::content(r1), message=function(e){ if (grepl("Parsed with column specification", conditionMessage(e))) { invokeRestart("muffleMessage") } } ) Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 9:30 AM, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal < roy.mendelss...@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) > > 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 > > ********************** > "The contents of this message do not reflect any position of the U.S. > Government or NOAA." > ********************** > Roy Mendelssohn > Supervisory Operations Research Analyst > NOAA/NMFS > Environmental Research Division > Southwest Fisheries Science Center > ***Note new street address*** > 110 McAllister Way > Santa Cruz, CA 95060 > Phone: (831)-420-3666 > Fax: (831) 420-3980 > e-mail: roy.mendelss...@noaa.gov www: http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/ > > "Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill." > "From those who have been given much, much will be expected" > "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" -MLK > Jr. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/ > posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.