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