Dear peRsons, I have a Sweave document which demonstrates the usage of step() function. With current R version 2.5.0 the step() function was changed so that the heading of trace=TRUE output for each model is printed using command message(): if (trace) message("\nStep: AIC=", format(round(bAIC, 2)), "\n", cut.string(deparse(as.vector(formula(fit)))), "\n") And the actual models concerned with true blue print(): if (trace) print(aod[o, ]) The problem here is that these parts go to different places: message() prints on the terminal where you run Sweave (or to stderr()), and print() prints to the result file (like it should do). Therefore the result file is without the step header, and looks bad. I believe there must be a way of getting all output to the result file, but I haven't yet found that way. Can anybody here show me the light. I had a similar problem when sink()ing the output to a file, but there I could find a solution (clumsy, but a solution: you need to double your sink()s). An optimal solution would be to change the function back to the old behaviour where all trace output is printed without message(). I bet that won't happen, though. Cheers, Jari Oksanen -- Jari Oksanen <jarioksa at cc.oulu.fi>