Display debugging text

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

scat(...)

Arguments

...

Arguments passed to cat

Value

NULL (invisibly)

See also

cat

Author

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.")