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scat

Display debugging text

Description

If getOption('DEBUG')==TRUE, write text to STDOUT and flush so that the text is immediately displayed. Otherwise, do nothing.

Usage

scat(...)

Arguments

...

Arguments passed to cat

Value

NULL (invisibly)

Author(s)

Gregory R. Warnes greg@warnes.net

Examples

options(DEBUG=NULL) # makee sure DEBUG isn't set
scat("Not displayed")

options(DEBUG=TRUE)
scat("This will be displayed immediately (even in R BATCH output \n")
scat("files), provided options()$DEBUG is TRUE.")

gtools

Various R Programming Tools

v3.8.2

GPL-2

Authors

Gregory R. Warnes, Ben Bolker, and Thomas Lumley

Initial release

2020-03-23