[R] how to debug a sudden exit in non-interactive mode

[Peter Dalgaard]

Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> If you look in ?debugger, especially right at the end, you will see how to
> attempt a post-mortem dump of the frams to a file.  If that gets run (and
> this might be a fatal error from C level, but it is not reporting so), you
> can reload the dump and use debugger on it.
> 
> On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Vadim Ogranovich wrote:
[snip]
> > # Here I run it non-interactively from the shell. Note that the last
> > line, cat("after\n"), doesn't get executed. (it does get executed in the
> > interactive mode or with --no-init-file)
> > ~% R --no-save --no-restore --silent < debug.R

Also, with an invocation like that, you can run under the debugger as
follows: 

  $ R -d gdb
  (gdb) run --no-save --no-restore --silent < debug.R

and maybe set a breakpoint in the error handler, or just let it run to
completion and see if it segfaults or something.

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