Does anyone know if there's a reason that proc.time() uses cat() rather than message() to print the output when there has been an error in the process of timing?
line 31 of time.R, https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/e5b21d0397c607883ff25cca379687b86933d730/src/library/base/R/time.R#L31 on.exit(cat("Timing stopped at:", ppt(proc.time() - time), "\n")) This means that as far as I can tell the general way to make sure there is no output from a timed statement is ... tt1 <- capture.output(tt0 <- suppressMessages(suppressWarnings( try(<stuff to try>, silent=TRUE)))) (I know I could/should be using tryCatch() instead of try(), but I don't think it really matters here ... ?) What would people think of a request to change this to message() rather than cat() in the future ... ? (This would mess up code that is already using capture.output() to store this information ...) cheers Ben Bolker ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
