On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba@fhcrc.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Michael Lawrence
> <lawrence.michael@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.

Kasper




>
> Dan
>
>
> > Just my opinion,
> > Michael
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen <
> > kasperdanielhansen@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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