[Rd] A good way to debug a c++ library embedded to R code

Charles Novaes de Santana charles.santana at gmail.com
Mon Feb 2 21:17:52 CET 2015


Thank you, Dan! The video helps a lot indeed!!

Best,

Charles

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 9:14 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
wrote:

>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Gabriel Becker" <gmbecker at ucdavis.edu>
> > To: "Charles Novaes de Santana" <charles.santana at gmail.com>
> > Cc: "r-devel" <r-devel at r-project.org>
> > Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 12:02:27 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Rd] A good way to debug a c++ library embedded to R code
> >
> > Charles,
> >
> > Run R under gdb
> >
> > R -d gdb
> >
> > You can then set breakpoints and catch problems in C(++) code run
> > under R.
> >
>
> Although I don't usually use videos to learn things, and this one is a few
> years old, it's quite good and still accurate:
>
> http://vimeo.com/11937905
>
> I refer to it whenever I need to debug C code in an R package.
>
> Dan
>
>
>
> > ~G
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Charles Novaes de Santana <
> > charles.santana at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > I am using R CMD SHLIB to compile a c++ code into a library (.so)
> > > and
> > > dyn.load to load this library into a R code. I am facing some
> > > problems in
> > > the c++ code that I can not figure out how to solve. Do you
> > > recomend any
> > > good way to debug this R + C++ program? If I was programming only
> > > in C++ I
> > > would use GDB.
> > >
> > > I would much appreciate any help or suggestion!
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Charles
> > >
> > > --
> > > Um axé! :)
> > >
> > > --
> > > Charles Novaes de Santana, PhD
> > > http://www.imedea.uib-csic.es/~charles
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