[R] Debugging R Code

[Simon Wood]

Maybe try Mark Bravingtons's debug package? (see article in last R news)

> is there a more convenient way to debug R code than the built in debug()
> function? (so that one can set breakpoints, step in and out of function
> calls,...). I read the section on debugging compiled code in the manual
> "Writing R Extensions" (I only want to debug ordinary code but thought that
> maybe the advice there could help), but didn't find out how I can start
> debugging my code after typing "R -d gdb", which brought me to the gdb prompt
> (I'm using R 1.6.2 in xemacs via ESS).
>
> Thanks,
>   Tobias
>
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