[Bioc-devel] best practice: verbose messages

[Dan Tenenbaum]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Michael Lawrence
<lawrence.michael at gene.com> wrote:
> If it's an informational message, like one you might log, use message(). If
> you're rendering an object as text, like in a show method, use cat().
>

Another thing to consider is that messages can be suppressed with
suppressMessages() but cat() output cannot.

Dan


> Just my opinion,
> Michael
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen <
> kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Should I use cat() or message() (or something else) for
>>   if(verbose) cat("my message\n")
>>
>> Best,
>> Kasper
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