[R] cat in a subroutine

[Bill Dunlap]

Do you have another function called "cat" in scope? (with an argument
called "j")?  Before calling cat("...") call print(cat) and
print(find("cat")).

-Bill


On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 12:35 AM Steven T. Yen <styen using ntu.edu.tw> wrote:

> I have had an issue with printing (with cat) in a subroutine for which I
> do not have a applicable example, but I am still hoping to get some
> help. In the following, the first block of code works fine.
>
> ...
>
> t<-abs(me)/se; p<-2*(1-pt(t,nrow(x)))
> sig<-my.sig.levels(p)
> out<-data.frame(round(cbind(me,se,t,p),digits)); out<-cbind(out,sig)
> rownames(out)<-names(me)
> colnames(out)<-c("est","se","t","p","sig")
> j<-grep(".one\\b",rownames(out))
> out<-out[-j,]
> return(out)
> }
>
> But as soon as I insert lines to print (cat) soething simple, it spits
> out message that appears to be nonsence (unrelated). Any idea. Please
> help. Thanks.
>
> t<-abs(me)/se; p<-2*(1-pt(t,nrow(x)))
> sig<-my.sig.levels(p)
> out<-data.frame(round(cbind(me,se,t,p),digits)); out<-cbind(out,sig)
> rownames(out)<-names(me)
> colnames(out)<-c("est","se","t","p","sig")
> cat("\nMarginal and Discrete Effects of Gen Ordered Logit / Probit
> Probabilities",
>      "\n\nlogistic =",logistic)
> j<-grep(".one\\b",rownames(out))
> out<-out[-j,]
> return(out)
> }
>
> In this particular case, the error message was as follows:
>
> Error in cat("\nMarginal and Discrete Effects of Gen Ordered Logit /
> Probit Probabilities",  :
>    unused argument (logistic)
>
> I have printed this way in numerous routines without problem and do not
> see why this is happending.
>
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