[ESS] Problem with ESS / R / tracebug under OS X

[Rainer M Krug]

Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> writes:

>  >> Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com>
>  >> on Thu, 27 Jun 2013 18:21:38 +0200 wrote:
>
> [...]

Thanks a lot for solving this - and I thought it was a Mac issue.

>
>  VS> Would it make sense to hook load_all on a key in dev-map? 
>
> Yes.

Absolutely - would be very useful.

>
>  VS> Say, C-c C-t l will search for the R package root from the current
>  VS> file. Then ask the user for the directory, then issue load_all?
>
> I just did that in SVN. It does work for my S4 packages if they have not
> been previously loaded by standard library() command.

Great - when will it be at git?

>
> Yeh, ... load_all is even nicer than ess-developer approach for
> intensively developed packages. Still have to properly test it, but so
> far so good.

As I said - I used it for developing interacting packages in parallel
and it worked absolutely perfect.

Thanks a lot,

Rainer

>
> Thanks, 
>
>     Vitalie
>
>  >> Rainer M Krug <Rainer at krugs.de>
>  >> on Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:07:43 +0200 wrote:
>
>  >> Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> writes:
>  >> Hi Rainer, 
>
>  >> Hi Vitalie,
>
>  >> sorry for not coming back to you earlier.
>
>  >> 
>  >> It is an R issue. It depends on how you source or evaluate the code in
>  >> the first place, and ESS cannot do much if R doesn't report error
>  >> references. 
>
>  >> Makes sense. So here we go:
>
>  >> 
>  >> You should give more details of what you mean by "I run code in a
>  >> package". R shows <text>#N if the code was evaluated with
>  >> eval(parse(text=...)) and may be on some other occasions.
>
>  >> I have written a small test package and put it on dropbox 
>
>  >> https://www.dropbox.com/s/qnoo78h9phpapjo/testTraceback_0.0-1.tar.gz
>
>  >> If you install the package, load it and call the function testprg, I get
>  >> the following:
>
>  >> ,----
>  >> | > install.packages("packages/testTraceback_0.0-1.tar.gz", repos=NULL, type="source")
>  >> | Installing package into '/Users/rainerkrug/Documents/Projects/AlienManagementDrakensberg/sim/library'
>  >> | (as 'lib' is unspecified)
>  >> | * installing *source* package 'testTraceback' ...
>  >> | ** R
>  >> | ** preparing package for lazy loading
>  >> | ** help
>  >> | No man pages found in package  'testTraceback' 
>  >> | *** installing help indices
>  >> | ** building package indices
>  >> | ** testing if installed package can be loaded
>  >> | * DONE (testTraceback)
>  >> | > library(testTraceback)
>  >> | > testprog(3)
>  >> | Error in testprog(3) : object 'hallo' not found
>  >> | >
>  >> `----
>
>  >> No traceback is available - ess debug minor mode is enabled
>
>  >> When I use the devtools package and load_all() to load the directory, I
>  >> get the following:
>
>  >> ,----
>  >> | > Library("devtools")
>  >> | > load_all("packages/testTraceback/")
>  >> | Loading testTraceback
>  >> | > testprog(2)
>  >> | Error in testprog(2) (from <text>#3) : object 'hallo' not found
>  >> | >
>  >> `----
>
>  >> and no further information.
>
>  >> When I source the file, I get the full traceback:
>
>  >> ,----
>  >> | > source("packages/testTraceback/R/testprog.R")
>  >> | > testprog(3)
>  >> | Error in testprog(3) (from testprog.R#3) : object 'hallo' not found
>  >> | >  
>  >> `----
>
>  >> I am using the official installation of R (3.0.1) for Mac, GNU emacs and
>  >> ESS from git (ess-version : 13.05-1 [<unknown>]).
>
>  >> Any suggestions on why the information is not comming through when using
>  >> load_all()? It was working under Linux, and I did not change my emacs.el
>  >> file.
>
>  >> Thanks,
>
>  >> Rainer
>
>  >> 
>  >> Vitalie
>  >> 
>  >> >> Rainer M Krug <Rainer at krugs.de>
>  >> >> on Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:59:54 +0200 wrote:
>  >> 
>  >> > Hi
>  >> > I migrated from Linux to Mac OS X and I am experiencing the following
>  >> > problem in ESS / R with tracebug:
>  >> 
>  >> > When I run code (in a package) and an error occurs, the location is not
>  >> > shown correctly, but only <text> instead:
>  >> 
>  >> > ,----
>  >> > | sh: line 1: 62906 Trace/BPT trap: 5 'r.param.scale'
>  >> > | --interface-description >
>  >> > | /var/folders/50/wcr5bjwn75q595n6x82gxj280000gn/T//RtmpsB4JC1/filef5007f3e9ee7'
>  >> > | 2>
>  >> > | /var/folders/50/wcr5bjwn75q595n6x82gxj280000gn/T//RtmpsB4JC1/filef50047393ea0'
>  >> > | Error in if (file.exists(file) == FALSE) if (!missing(asText) && asText ==  : 
>  >> > |   argument is of length zero
>  >> > | Error in parseGRASS(cmd, legacyExec = legacyExec) (from <text>#150) : 
>  >> > |   r.param.scale not parsed
>  >> > `----
>  >> 
>  >> > I tried it with starting emacs with -q and only loading ess 5.14, but
>  >> > still the same as using the one from git.
>  >> 
>  >> > Any suggestions?
>  >> 
>  >> > Thanks,
>  >> 
>  >> > Rainer
>  >> 
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