[R] help to debug C codes called from R

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Wed Oct 8 12:58:51 CEST 2008


On 07/10/2008 9:28 PM, Droit Arnaud wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I have a package with a C codes called from R.
>  I want to debug the C functions to check variables values and to include some breakpoints in the C codes.
> I am wondering if anyone knows of any  tools to easily help debug in the R environment.

You can use whatever debugger you normally use for C code, e.g. 
gdb/insight/ddb if you are using the usual gcc tools to build it.

For details on doing this in Windows, see 
www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/debuggingR

Duncan Murdoch



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