[R] program never enters browser mode when I add browser()

[Patrick Burns]

I see two possibilities:

1) the call to 'browser' is inside an 'if'
clause that doesn't exectute.

2)  the call forgets the parentheses, so it is:

   browser

rather than

   browser()

On 28/10/2011 20:04, M. Tran wrote:
> Dear All
>
> I have a program that breaks at the following lines of code:
>
> bigfunction =
> {
> ...
>
> object1 = myfunction(x)
> object2 = strsplit(object1, ",")[[1]]
>
> ...
> }
>
> where myfunction is defined elsewhere outside of bigfunction.
>
> The error I get is "error in strsplit() -- object1 not found".
>
> However, when I insert browser() into my code so that the above reads,
>
> bigfunction =
> {
> ...
>
> browser()
> object1 = myfunction(x)
> object2 = strsplit(object1, ",")[[1]]
>
> ...
> }
>
> my entire program runs successfully, and oddly *never enters browser mode*.
>
> Has anyone encountered a similar problem?  Any advice would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Michelle
>
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