toolstartmessage: Tool: Start message

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Description

Function writes a process start message and performs some diagnostics

Usage

toolstartmessage(argumentValues, level = NULL)

Arguments

argumentValues	list of the evaluated arguments of the calling function
level	This argument allows to establish a hierarchy of print statements. The hierarchy is preserved for the next vcat executions. Currently this setting can have 4 states: NULL (nothing will be changed), 0 (reset hierarchies), "+" (increase hierarchy level by 1) and "-" (decrease hierarchy level by 1).

Value

a list containing diagnostic information required by toolendmessage

Author(s)

Jan Philipp Dietrich, Pascal Führlich

See Also

toolendmessage, vcat

Examples

innerFunction <- function() {
  startinfo <- madrat:::toolstartmessage(list(argumentsToPrint = 123), "+")
  vcat(1, "inner")
  madrat:::toolendmessage(startinfo, "-")
}
outerFunction <- function() {
  startinfo <- madrat:::toolstartmessage(list(), "+")
  vcat(1, "outer")
  innerFunction()
  madrat:::toolendmessage(startinfo, "-")
}
outerFunction()

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