Dear R-help, The following code downloads an html document into variable 'doc' and then stores an internal representation into variable 'html.tree'. Even if the html code is malformed, this still works which is fantastic. However, as in the example below, i do get some ouput from R in the console which i would like to suppress somehow, so i can keep my window a bit cleaner.
I understand that the output is just letting me know that the html code is malformed, but for my purposes i can ignore that output. Is there a way to achieve this? ### Example: library(RCurl); library(XML) doc <- getURL('http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22R%20Project %22&as_qdr=d1&num=100') html.tree <- htmlTreeParse(doc, useInternalNodes = TRUE) ### Output - this is what i would like to suppress Tag nobr invalid htmlParseEntityRef: expecting ';' htmlParseEntityRef: expecting ';' ### etc. I attempted to use try(expr, silent=TRUE) but that didn't work for me: > try(htmlTreeParse(doc, useInternalNodes = TRUE), silent=TRUE) Many thanks in advance for any help, Tony Breyal ### O/S = Windows Vista Ultimate ### > sessionInfo() R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom. 1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom. 1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] XML_1.98-1 RCurl_0.91-0 > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.