R-beta: Re: new platform

Douglas Bates bates at stat.wisc.edu
Tue Sep 1 19:52:29 CEST 1998


>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Snow <snow at biostat.washington.edu> writes:

  Greg> Also is there a convenient way to run gdb on R through emacs?
  Greg> If I give it R.binary, it does not have the wrapper stuff from
  Greg> R and crashes, If I give it R it complains because it is not a
  Greg> binary, and if I do R -d then I don't get the emacs extras.

Make a symbolic link from your current directory to
$RHOME/bin/R.binary then create a file .gdbinit in the current
directory.  Add the lines
 set env RHOME /usr/lib/R
 set env R_PAPERSIZE letter
 set env R_PRINTCMD lpr
to the .gdbinit file.  (Substitute your values for these variables.)
At this point you can type
 M-x gdb <RET> R.binary <RET>
to start a gdb session running R.

If you want to set a breakpoint in compiled code that is dynamically
loaded from a library, there is a trick you can use.  You have to have
R running and use a call to library() to load the library then you set
the breakpoint.  The easiest way to do this is to use C-c C-c to send
an interrupt signal to R.  This puts you back to the (gdb) prompt.
Set the breakpoint then use "sig 0" to send a null signal to the R
process and get it started up again.

-- 
Douglas Bates                            bates at stat.wisc.edu
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