[Bioc-devel] best practice for storing long error message in R package

[Joris Meys]

Hi Michael,

objects I need in the namespace of my package that are NOT data and
shouldn't be accessible to the user, are in general stored in a file I call
InternalObjects.R  All I do there is just assign them to a name I can use
further down in the package, eg:

in InternalObjects.R:

mymessage <- "A very long error message"

In aFun.R

aFun <- function(x){ stop(mymessage) }

I use this mechanism to store eg character vectors to match possible
choices, or small data frames that function as a lookup table.  Anything
that might be remotely useful to the user, is better stored using the data
mechanism from the package.

My 2 humble cents.

Cheers
Joris

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Michael Love <michaelisaiahlove at gmail.com>
wrote:

> hi,
>
> I have a long error message I want to print out after failing on some
> condition, but don't want this long message taking up space in the
> body of the function. I'm curious what other developers think would be
> best practice for where/how to store this message content in a
> package.
>
> best,
> Mike
>
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