[R] Debugging R Code

Angel angel_lul at hotmail.com
Thu Feb 12 13:43:14 CET 2004


If you plan using Mark Bravingtons's debug package within emacs via ess you
should read this:
https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/ess-help/2004-February/001708.html
were Mark suggested that in emacs you should set
options( debug.command.recall=FALSE)' before running the debugger.
Cheers,
Angel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tobias Sing" <tsing at mpi-sb.mpg.de>
To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 12:08 PM
Subject: [R] Debugging R Code


> Hi all,
>
> 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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