R: Display debugging text

scat {gtools} | R Documentation

## 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

### See Also

`cat`

### 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.")

[Package gtools version 3.8.2 Index]