ropensci/skimr

Warnings when skimming

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#223 opened on Jan 4, 2018

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Description

Warnings that happen when skimming display. This is informative for many purposes, specifically for understanding what is in an unknown data set. However for other purposes it is undesirable.

One option would be to make a quiet mode that defaults to FALSE so that users could suppress the printing of warnings.

There may be other ideas also, so I'm marking this as for discussion.

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Domain
data
Issue type
feature
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2
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under 1 hour
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stale
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clear
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R basicsskimr packagefunction parameters
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
70
Research direction
The issue requests adding a 'quiet' parameter to the skim() function to suppress warnings. First, locate the skim function implementation (likely in R/skim.R) and find where warnings are generated, possibly with functions like warning() or message(). Then, add a 'quiet = FALSE' parameter to the function signature and conditionally suppress warnings when quiet is TRUE. Test the change with a simple example.
Warnings when skimming · ropensci/skimr#223 | Good First Issue