How to prevent prettyR describe() from printing in console

I am using the prettyR package's describe function to calculate the mean, standard deviation, median, kurtosis and skewness of a dataset. The code I use is as follows:

library(prettyR)

a <- describe(data,num.desc=c("mean","sd","median","kurtosis","skewness"))

The dataset in question however is very long so the function proceeds to print the whole list of data in the R console under "description of structure". This takes a long time and makes it hard to read results of previous code in the console due to lots of scrolling required. The output in the console looks as follows:

Description of structure(list(x=c(...)),row.names=c(...),class="data.frame")

Is there any way to prevent the above output from printing in the console? I just want the a object so I can call it to look at the mean etc. Any help would be much appreciated as the R documentation has been getting me nowhere!

Thanks.

Badly implemented cat, should be message, not so pretty. Wouldn't use such packages, also not maintained since 4 years.

However can be silenced with capture.output into something.

nul <- capture.output(des <- prettyR::describe(mtcars))

des
#  Numeric 
#        mean median      var     sd valid.n
# mpg   20.09  19.20    36.32   6.03      32
# cyl    6.19   6.00     3.19   1.79      32
# disp 230.72 196.30 15360.80 123.94      32
# hp   146.69 123.00  4700.87  68.56      32
# drat   3.60   3.70     0.29   0.53      32
# wt     3.22   3.33     0.96   0.98      32
# qsec  17.85  17.71     3.19   1.79      32
# vs     0.44   0.00     0.25   0.50      32
# am     0.41   0.00     0.25   0.50      32
# gear   3.69   4.00     0.54   0.74      32
# carb   2.81   2.00     2.61   1.62      32

Better use psych::describe(mtcars).