[R] Modern Symbolic debugger for R programmes?

[Rainer M Krug]

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On 09/10/12 09:42, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> On 09/10/12 06:12, Worik R wrote:
>> I think I am whistling in the wind, but is there a modern symbolic debugger for R
>> programmes?
> 
>> I am working through some  one else's code, thousands of lines, that has the occasional bug
>> in it, and a lot in my understanding of it.
> 
>> I cannot make setBreakpoint or findLineNum  work.  I get "No source refs found.".  I am 
>> starting to loose my mind!
> 
>> A debugger where I could set breakpoints with a little more granularity than the function 
>> level and a little more accessible than the trace function.  What I ideally want is GDB for
>> R.
> 
>> Does that exist?
> 
> There is quite some debugging fuctionality available in ESS for emacs
> (http://ess.r-project.org/) and I rmrmber a presentation at useR in 2011 that there is as well
> in eclipse, but there you have to used,. as far as I remember, a patched version of R.
> 
> So I would suggest to look into ESS for a debugger.

Just found http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2854820/statet-debugging-tool and
http://www.walware.de/?page=/it/downloads/statet.mframe

Cheers,

Rainer

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rainer
> 
> 
>> cheers Worik
> 
> 
> 

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