[Rd] A good way to debug a c++ library embedded to R code

[Dan Tenenbaum]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gabriel Becker" <gmbecker at ucdavis.edu>
> To: "Charles Novaes de Santana" <charles.santana at gmail.com>
> Cc: "r-devel" <r-devel at r-project.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 2, 2015 12:02:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rd] A good way to debug a c++ library embedded to R code
> 
> Charles,
> 
> Run R under gdb
> 
> R -d gdb
> 
> You can then set breakpoints and catch problems in C(++) code run
> under R.
> 

Although I don't usually use videos to learn things, and this one is a few years old, it's quite good and still accurate:

http://vimeo.com/11937905

I refer to it whenever I need to debug C code in an R package.

Dan



> ~G
> 
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Charles Novaes de Santana <
> charles.santana at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am using R CMD SHLIB to compile a c++ code into a library (.so)
> > and
> > dyn.load to load this library into a R code. I am facing some
> > problems in
> > the c++ code that I can not figure out how to solve. Do you
> > recomend any
> > good way to debug this R + C++ program? If I was programming only
> > in C++ I
> > would use GDB.
> >
> > I would much appreciate any help or suggestion!
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Charles
> >
> > --
> > Um axé! :)
> >
> > --
> > Charles Novaes de Santana, PhD
> > http://www.imedea.uib-csic.es/~charles
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> Gabriel Becker, PhD
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> Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
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