On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Michael Lawrence <lawrence.mich...@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. Dan > Just my opinion, > Michael > > > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen < > kasperdanielhan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Should I use cat() or message() (or something else) for >> if(verbose) cat("my message\n") >> >> Best, >> Kasper >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel