R: a tentative logging package

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## a tentative logging package

### Description

a logging package emulating the python logging package.

What you find here behaves similarly to what you also find in Python. This includes hierarchic loggers, multiple handlers at each logger, the possibility to specify a formatter for each handler (one default formatter is given), same levels (names and numeric values) as Python's logging package, a simple logging.BasicConfig function to quickly put yourself in a usable situation...

This package owes a lot to my employer, r-forge, the stackoverflow community, Brian Lee Yung Rowe's futile package (v1.1) and the documentation of the Python logging package.

### Details

Package: | logging
Version: | 0.4-35
Date: | 2010-01-14
License: | GPL (>=2)
Depends: | R (>= 2.9.2)
Built: | R 2.9.2; ; 2010-01-27 12:24:58 UTC; unix

Index:

    basicConfig                 bootstrapping the logging package

    addHandler                  add a handler to a logger
    getLogger                   set defaults and get current values for a logger
    removeHandler               remove a handler from a logger
    setLevel                    set logging.level for a logger

to use this package, include logging instructions in your code, possibly like this:

      library(logging)
      basicConfig()
      addHandler(writeToFile, logger="company", file="sample.log")
      loginfo("hello world", logger="")
      logwarn("hello company", logger="company.module")

the `basicConfig` function adds a console handler to the root logger, while the explicitly called `addHandler` adds a file handler to the 'company' logger. the effect of the above example is two lines on the console and just one line in the `sample.log` file.

the web pages for this package on r-forge are kept decently up to date and contain a usable tutorial. check the references.

### Author(s)

Mario Frasca <mariotomo@gmail.com>

Maintainer: Mario Frasca <mario.frasca@nelen-schuurmans.nl>

### References

the python logging module: http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html

this package at r-forge: http://logging.r-forge.r-project.org/

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