Re: [amelia] Hide imputation progress

Yang, There is an argument in the amelia() function, named p2s (from "print to screen") that will increase or decrease the verbosity of the Amelia output. Set "amelia( …., p2s=0)" for the lowest level of screen output. If that is not sufficient, perhaps we can expand the range of the scale, but also if you really needed, and this is a general R technique, you could move the output off screen, by use of the sink() function. I find this useful in settings where code is running on servers (like rApache) and output can derail the job. For example, it might look like: sink(file = "myfilename", type = "output") #Turn off output, instead write to file output<- amelia(x, p2s=0) sink() #Resume screen output Best, James -- James Honaker, Senior Research Scientist //// Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University ------------------------------ *From:* amelia-bounces(a)lists.gking.harvard.edu [ amelia-bounces(a)lists.gking.harvard.edu] on behalf of Yang Lu [ yang.lu2014(a)gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, November 20, 2014 3:37 PM *To:* amelia(a)lists.gking.harvard.edu *Subject:* [amelia] Hide imputation progress Hi, Is there a way to hide the output on imputation iterations (such as Imputation 1, 2 etc) in the package? It seems that the imputation counts are hard-coded to print out the progress. Thank you very much. Yang Loading required package: foreign Loading required package: RcppArmadillo ## ## Amelia II: Multiple Imputation ## (Version 1.7.2, built: 2013-04-03) ## Copyright (C) 2005-2014 James Honaker, Gary King and Matthew Blackwell ## Refer to http://gking.harvard.edu/amelia/ for more information ## -- Imputation 1 -- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -- Imputation 2 -- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 -- Imputation 3 -- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 -- Imputation 4 -- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 -- Imputation 5 -- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16