[Rd] Suppressing a warning from library()
Peter Dalgaard
p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Wed Feb 24 18:13:14 CET 2010
Terry Therneau wrote:
> I get a warning about "1 warning message" using R CMD check on the
> survival library. It comes from the code snippet:
>
> if (library(cmprsk, logical.return=TRUE)) {
> # further test of competing risks from survfit
> .
> .
> }
> This is a very useful additional test when I'm checking any changes to
> the affected code, so I like having this in my test suite even though it
> doesn't run automatically.
>
> This argues for a change in library -- when the user sets logical.return
> =T they don't need a warning message too. I submit this to the R core
> and their collective wisdom.
>
> I admit that mine is an unusual case, and for now I'll turn if off with
> options(warn=-1)
Probably, wrapping in suppressWarnings() is better.
-p
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