[Bioc-devel] best practice: verbose messages

[Hervé Pagès]

Hi Kasper,

On 07/10/2013 10:50 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at fhcrc.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
> Sure.  What I cannot decide is whether that is good or bad.

If you use message(), then you don't need to have a 'verbose' arg since
the messages can be suppressed with suppressMessages(). That makes
your code simpler/cleaner. However this approach is only appropriate if
you want your function to be verbose by default. If you want it to be
quiet by default then I don't know what's best. 'verbose' arg + cat() or
'verbose' arg + message() ? That's the question...

H.

>
> Kasper
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>> Dan
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>>> 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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