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...with a warning .. ) > > > Perhaps we could "flip the switch" in a test > > environment and see how much havoc is wreaked and whether > > authors are sufficiently responsive? > > > Michael > > As we have > 10'000 packages on CRAN alonce, and people have > started (mis)using suppressWarnings(.) in many places, there > may be considerably more packages affected than we optimistically assume... > > As R core member who would "flip the switch" I'd typically then > have to be the one sending an e-mail t...

...'if(x[1])' for them albeit with a warning .. ) > Perhaps we could "flip the switch" in a test > environment and see how much havoc is wreaked and whether > authors are sufficiently responsive? > Michael As we have > 10'000 packages on CRAN alonce, and people have started (mis)using suppressWarnings(.) in many places, there may be considerably more packages affected than we optimistically assume... As R core member who would "flip the switch" I'd typically then have to be the one sending an e-mail to all package maintainer...

Is there really a need for these complications? Packages emitting this warning are broken by definition and should be fixed. Perhaps we could "flip the switch" in a test environment and see how much havoc is wreaked and whether authors are sufficiently responsive? Michael On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch > wrote: >