[Rd] [R] Debugging R/Fortran in Windows

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Sat Sep 10 13:44:51 CEST 2005


James Wettenhall wrote:
> Thanks very much to Uwe, Duncan and Seth (who replied off the list).
> 
> Uwe - That section of the R for Windows FAQ was very useful - thanks! 
> Sorry I posted a question involving C/Fortran to R-Help.
> 
> Duncan - Thanks for all the useful info.  I've bookmarked the pages you
> sent me.
> 
> Seth - Thanks for suggesting valgrind.  I tried it out, and it correctly
> told me that memory leakage was not the problem (although I didn't believe
> it at first).

Is there a version of valgrind that works in Windows now, or did you do 
this test somewhere else?

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> It turned out that the reason my variables were being overwritten was not
> because of memory leakage, but because of my own stupidity - using the
> same variable name for a function I was estimating and for my current
> estimate of that function.  Sorry I didn't spend more time checking this
> myself!
> 
> Thanks again for your help,
> James
> 
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