[R] recover should send messages to stderr, not stdout

[Prof Brian Ripley]

recover() is a pure R function, so you can very easily edit it to meet
your requirements.  You could also submit a patched version for
consideration after testing.

Note that some of us consider recover() to be designed for 
interactive-only use, and use something like

    options(error=expression(if(interactive()) recover() else dump.calls()))


On Tue, 11 May 2004, Vadim Ogranovich wrote:

> recover() sends all its messages, which I consider to be error messages,
> to stdout. I think they more properly belong to stderr.
>  
> This is an important difference for those of us who use R in batch mode
> to generate ASCII files.

Only to the subset who believe that recover() is a useful error option in 
non-interactive use.

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