Dear Martin,

Thanks a lot for fixing it in the trunk. I do appreciate it. It really
makes it a lot easier to use topGO when creating markdown files.

Witold

PS. I did delete the github fork.

On 5 February 2016 at 12:47, Morgan, Martin
<martin.mor...@roswellpark.org> wrote:
> I followed your lead and updated topGO in Bioc devel branch to version 
> 2.23.3, replacing cat() with message() directly rather a wrapper 
> .cat2message(). I did not change use of cat() in print() and show() methods, 
> where output to stdout is appropriate.
>
> Generally, using message() simplified code, replacing multiple calls to cat() 
> and nested paste() statements with a single call to message().
>
> Martin
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Bioc-devel <bioc-devel-boun...@r-project.org> on behalf of Witold E 
> Wolski <wewol...@gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 5, 2016 5:50 AM
> To: Dan Tenenbaum; henrik.bengts...@gmail.com
> Cc: bioc-devel; James W. MacDonald
> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] topGO and cat() and print() statements in program   
>   code
>
> I did replace the call to cat in topGO with with a call to a package
> private .cat2message function (which makes some adjustments to the
> passed arguments so that the messages look as before). The patched
> package is available from here.
> https://github.com/wolski/topGO
> Upstream commits made on 3 February by h.bengtsson are merged.
> AFAIK all is working OK (checks pass and my code using topGO is still working)
>
>
> Witold
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 4 February 2016 at 11:56, Witold E Wolski <wewol...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>> Excellent suggestion. This is very similar to how I am plan to do the
>> refactoring. Write a function cat2message which has a signature like
>> cat but uses message in the implementation and than replace all calls
>> to cat in the topGO package.
>>
>> best
>>
>> On 4 February 2016 at 00:56, Dan Tenenbaum <dtene...@fredhutch.org> wrote:
>>> Another dirty hack is to redefine cat() in your own code to do nothing:
>>>
>>> cat <- function(....) {}
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "James W. MacDonald" <jmac...@uw.edu>
>>>> To: "Witold E Wolski" <wewol...@gmail.com>
>>>> Cc: "bioc-devel" <bioc-devel@r-project.org>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2016 6:50:21 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] topGO and cat() and print() statements in 
>>>> program   code
>>>
>>>> I can't speak to the issue of changing somebody else's code without forking
>>>> (which you are free to do), or getting their OK. But do note that there are
>>>> usually ways around this. First, you can use include = FALSE in your chunk
>>>> options statement, which will run all the code, but silence everything.
>>>> This isn't a good use case if you need to print, but that can usually be
>>>> split out. Something like
>>>>
>>>> ```r{noisypart, include = FALSE}
>>>>
>>>> noisy code goes here
>>>>
>>>> ```
>>>>
>>>> ```r{quietpart, echo = FALSE, fig.cap = ""}
>>>>
>>>> plots go here
>>>>
>>>> ```
>>>>
>>>> An alternative is to use GOstats, which may be less noisy, but which still
>>>> has 18 calls to cat() (vs 121 for topGO) and 2 calls to print() (vs 29 for
>>>> topGO).
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> Jim
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 5:19 AM, Witold E Wolski <wewol...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am using the very usefull package topGO to generate a report (R
>>>>> markdown). There is not much to complain about topGO (on the contrary)
>>>>> except that the package uses cat instead of message to display
>>>>> progress information. which ruins the report.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also the bioconductor package guidelines state:
>>>>> cat() or print() are used only when displaying an object to the user,
>>>>> e.g., in a show method.
>>>>>
>>>>> This makes it difficult to integrate topGO.
>>>>>
>>>>> I did contact the maintainer asking to update topGO. However I did not
>>>>> get an reply. It seems that the maintainer is occupied with other
>>>>> problems. I did offer to replace the cat with message for these
>>>>> functions I am using myself. No reply.
>>>>>
>>>>> So what I am wondering is... If I do the corrections, and would like
>>>>> to commit the code... Sure I could create a branch but since I do not
>>>>> have write access to svn no chance to push (commit) it for review.
>>>>> And who is going to review it if the maintainer does not have time?
>>>>>
>>>>> best
>>>>> Witold
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Witold Eryk Wolski
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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