Unasked console output when using map or lapply

[gabrakadabra]

I have a problem when mapping the plot function over a list.
When iterating over the list for plotting I also get output in the console.
I do not want the output. I just want the plots. Just as it works when I use the function without
mapping: hist(rnorm(100))

I use purrr::map in the example but the same problem occurs when I use lapply()

Any suggestions?

library(dplyr)

# Setup plotting
par(mfrow =c(1,2))

# Create a list of data
list(a = rnorm(100), b = rnorm(100, 5)) %>% 
      # Map to histogram
      purrr::map(hist)

But then I get this "extra" output.

#> $a
#> $breaks
#>  [1] -2.5 -2.0 -1.5 -1.0 -0.5  0.0  0.5  1.0  1.5  2.0  2.5
#> 
#> $counts
#>  [1]  1  4 11 20 24 14 15  7  3  1
#> 
#> $density
#>  [1] 0.02 0.08 0.22 0.40 0.48 0.28 0.30 0.14 0.06 0.02
#> 
#> $mids
#>  [1] -2.25 -1.75 -1.25 -0.75 -0.25  0.25  0.75  1.25  1.75  2.25
#> 
#> $xname
#> [1] ".x[[i]]"
#> 
#> $equidist
#> [1] TRUE
#> 
#> attr(,"class")
#> [1] "histogram"
#> 
#> $b
#> $breaks
#>  [1] 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0 5.5 6.0 6.5 7.0 7.5
#> 
#> $counts
#>  [1]  1  5  8 15 26 18 11  2 10  4
#> 
#> $density
#>  [1] 0.02 0.10 0.16 0.30 0.52 0.36 0.22 0.04 0.20 0.08
#> 
#> $mids
#>  [1] 2.75 3.25 3.75 4.25 4.75 5.25 5.75 6.25 6.75 7.25
#> 
#> $xname
#> [1] ".x[[i]]"
#> 
#> $equidist
#> [1] TRUE
#> 
#> attr(,"class")
#> [1] "histogram"

# Alternative for including title
      # imap(~hist(.x, main = .y))

^{Created on 2019-05-31 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)}

[FJCC]

You can capture the output in a variable and the plots will still appear.

tmp <- list(a = rnorm(100), b = rnorm(100, 5)) %>% 
  # Map to histogram
  purrr::map(hist)

Will that work for you?

[paleolimbot]

You're calling plot() for its side-effects not its output, so you probably want to use walk() instead of map():

library(dplyr)

# Setup plotting
par(mfrow =c(1,2))

# Create a list of data
list(a = rnorm(100), b = rnorm(100, 5)) %>% 
  # Map to histogram
  purrr::walk(hist)

^{Created on 2019-05-31 by the reprex package (v0.2.1)}