[Rd] Capturing warnings with capture.output

[Luke Tierney]

Look at how suppressWarnings does this.

Best,

luke

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, hadley wickham wrote:

>> Something like this which displays the warnings and also writes
>> them to out so that they are captured:
>
> Is it possible to not display the warnings (just write them out) ?
>
> Hadley
>
>
>
>
>>
>> out <- capture.output(
>>    withCallingHandlers({
>>         print(1)
>>         warning("A warning.")
>>         print(2)
>>         warning("Another warning.")
>>         print(3)
>>    }, warning = function(x) cat(x$message, "\n"))
>> )
>>
>> print(out)
>>
>>
>> On 8/29/06, hadley wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Is there any way to include warnings in the output from capture.output?  eg:
>>>
>>> a <- capture.output(warning("test"))
>>> all.equal(a, "Warning message: \n test ")
>>>
>>> Conceptually, this seems like redirecting stderr to stdout, or somehow
>>> changing warning to simple print it's output.  I've had a look at
>>> tryCatch and using a warning handler, but this terminates execution at
>>> the warning.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Hadley
>>>
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