[R] how do you know which functions are being debugged?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

I have often wanted to get such a list as well without having to write
code myself.  If  a function which automatically iterated over all
possible objects and listed out the ones that being debugged were
available in the core it would be useful.  Even if its slow this would
be used at debug time and not a production time so it would not be too
bad.  Even a heuristic that checked likely locations, e.g. just the
global environment, but not all locations might be useful.

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> On 10/23/2009 1:28 PM, Andrew Yee wrote:
>>
>> This is kind of a dumb question:  I know you can use isdebugged() to find
>> out if a specific function is flagged for debugging, but is there a way to
>> list all the functions that are flagged for debugging?
>
> No, R doesn't keep any master list, it sets a flag in each one.  So you
> could iterate over all visible objects to find the ones that have the flag
> set (and this is quite slow, there are a lot of places to look), but there
> would always be the chance that one was hiding somewhere you didn't look.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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