From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Wed Feb 24 18:39:29 2010
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:39:29 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rd] Suppressing a warning from library()
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On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Terry Therneau wrote:

> I get a warning about "1 warning message" using R CMD check on the
> survival library.  It comes from the code snippet:
>
>   if (library(cmprsk, logical.return=TRUE)) {
> 	# further test of competing risks from survfit
> 	.
> 	.
> 	}
> This is a very useful additional test when I'm checking any changes to
> the affected code, so I like having this in my test suite even though it
> doesn't run automatically.
>
> This argues for a change in library -- when the user sets logical.return
> =T they don't need a warning message too.

It was the considered opinion that in general they do.  You can always 
use suppressWarnings() in your code if you don't, or you can pre-check 
that the package is available via lower-level functions such as 
.packages and .find.package.

> I submit this to the R core and their collective wisdom.
>
> I admit that mine is an unusual case, and for now I'll turn if off with
> options(warn=-1)
>
> Terry T.
>
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[Rd] Suppressing a warning from library()
Prof Brian Ripley