how to suppress message when reading/downloading from http

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I am trying to fread to read this data and i want to suppress the message (trying URL) that shows in the console

fread(http://comtrade.un.org/api/get?max=50000&type=C&freq=A&px=HS&ps=2010&r=4&p=all&rg=1%2C2&cc=TOTAL%2C11%2C12%2C21%2C22%2C31%2C32%2C42%2C53&fmt=csv)


trying URL 'http://comtrade.un.org/api/get?max=50000&type=C&freq=A&px=HS&ps=2010&r=4&p=all&rg=1%2C2&cc=TOTAL%2C11%2C12%2C21%2C22%2C31%2C32%2C42%2C53&fmt=csv'
Content type 'text/csv; charset=utf-8' length 31553 bytes (30 KB)
downloaded 30 KB
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Hi,

Looking at the documentation of fread, ?data.table::fread, shows there is a showProgress argument. Set this to FALSE, and your message will be gone.

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