[R] Debugging R Code

dlc dominique.couturier at unine.ch
Thu Feb 12 12:26:54 CET 2004


hello,
the new library "debug" contains such possibilities and has a nice 
tcl/tk interface.
Read the description of that library in the last volume of R-news 
(volume 3/3, december 03, p.29)
hope this help,
dlc

> Hi all,
>
> is there a more convenient way to debug R code than the built in 
> debug()
> function? (so that one can set breakpoints, step in and out of function
> calls,...). I read the section on debugging compiled code in the manual
> "Writing R Extensions" (I only want to debug ordinary code but thought 
> that
> maybe the advice there could help), but didn't find out how I can start
> debugging my code after typing "R -d gdb", which brought me to the gdb 
> prompt
> (I'm using R 1.6.2 in xemacs via ESS).
>
> Thanks,
>   Tobias
>
>
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