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Print Information chunk with time stamp

Source: R/general_info_chunk.R
info_chunk.Rd

This function prints a formatted message with a timestamp, surrounded by separators for better readability in console outputs or logs.

Usage

info_chunk(
  message = "",
  cat_date = TRUE,
  sep_lines_before = 0L,
  sep_lines_after = 1L,
  cat_bold = FALSE,
  cat_red = FALSE,
  cat_timestamp = FALSE,
  level = 0L,
  msg_n_lines = 1L,
  info_lines_before = 0L,
  verbose = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

message

Character. The main message to be timestamped. This parameter is mandatory and cannot be NULL or empty.

cat_date

Logical. Whether to include the date in the timestamp. Default is FALSE, meaning only the time is printed. See cat_time.

sep_lines_before, sep_lines_after

Integer. Number of extra empty lines to print before and after the separator lines. See cat_sep for more details.

cat_bold

logical; whether to print the text in bold. Default is FALSE.

cat_red

logical; whether to print the text in red. Default is FALSE.

cat_timestamp

Logical. Whether to include the time in the timestamp. Default is FALSE.

level

integer; the level at which the message will be printed. If e.g. level = 1L, the following string will be printed at the beginning of the message: " >>> ". Default is 0.

msg_n_lines

integer; the number of newline characters to print after the message. Default is 1.

info_lines_before

Integer. Number of extra empty lines to print before the message. Default is 0L.

verbose

logical; whether to print output to console. Default is TRUE. If FALSE, the function does nothing. This is useful to suppress the function output in certain contexts.

...

Additional arguments passed to cat_sep for customizing the separators.

Value

The function does not return any value but prints the message and separators to the console.

Author

Ahmed El-Gabbas

Examples

info_chunk(message = "Started")
#> 
#> --------------------------------------------------
#> Started - 23/07/2025
#> --------------------------------------------------
#> 

info_chunk(message = "finished", line_char = "*", line_char_rep = 60)
#> 
#> ************************************************************
#> finished - 23/07/2025
#> ************************************************************
#> 

info_chunk(message = "Started", cat_bold =  TRUE, cat_red = TRUE)
#> 
#> --------------------------------------------------
#> Started - 23/07/2025
#> --------------------------------------------------
#>