[R] help! what's wrong with setBreakpoint

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 11-12-05 10:32 PM, Michael wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am in the middle of debugging which is stopped using "browser()"... in
> myfile.R at around line #25.
>
> I was then stuck in a big loop which I want to escape and stop the program
> at the line after the big loop.
>
> In the debugging mode, I used
>
>     Browse[2]>  setBreakpoint("myfile.R#38")

What did it print?

>
> I then typed "c" and "ENTER", thinking that it will continue to execute
> until when it comes across line #38 and then stop there...
>
> But it didn't work - it continued the execution until the end of the
> function, right at the line "return(results)"...
>
> What happened? How to solve this problem?

One of the complications in R is that you can have multiple copies of a 
function in memory.  You may (or may not, what did it print??) have set 
a breakpoint in one copy, then run another.  Or you may have edited that 
function after originally sourcing it, and lost the source reference.

An alternative to using setBreakpoint is just to edit a call to 
browser() into the function.  It's less convenient, but more robust.

Duncan Murdoch

> Thanks a lot!
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