TraMineR - dont print message of seqdef

Question

Is there a possibility to disable the initial message (1) when creating a sequence with seqdef library(TraMineR) ?

(1) this message

 [>] coding void elements with '%' and missing values with '*'
 [>] 6 distinct states appear in the data: 
     1 = M
     2 = MC
 ...

For instance,

LCS.ex <- c("S-U-S-M-S-U", "U-S-SC-MC", "S-U-M-S-SC-UC-MC")
seqdef(LCS.ex)

Subsequently, is it possible to use TraMineR functions (such as seqdist or seqLLCS) without using a TraMineR object ?

Answer 1

You can suppress the messages with suppressMessages

suppressMessages(seqdef(LCS.ex))

As for your second question: seqdist and seqLLCS work only for state sequence objects. So, you need to transform your data in such a object.