[R] Debugging (was Re: HELP!!!)

[Patrick Connolly]

On Fri, 22-Feb-2013 at 02:23PM -0500, jim holtman wrote:

|> Run with:
|> 
|> options(error=utils::recover)
|> 
|> Then at the point of the error you will be able to examine sigma2$id
|> which is probably not a numeric.  Any time you get an error like this,
|> if you have been using the above statement in your script (which I
|> always have turned on), you will be able to discover for yourself most
|> of your bugs.  Debugging is an important talent to learn if you are
|> going to be writing programs/scripts.

Does that have advantages of using a browser() line or two?  I find
them indispensable.


|> 
|> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 2:02 PM, lara sowale <lara.dupe at gmail.com> wrote:
|> > I am sorry to bug you, I am having this error whenever I want to run
|> > random effects regression in software R: Error in if (sigma2$id < 0)
|> > stop(paste("the estimated variance of the",  :
|> >    missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed.
|> >
|> > Please help me look into it.
|> >
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|> >
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|> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> -- 
|> Jim Holtman
|> Data Munger Guru
|> 
|> What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
|> Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it.
|> 
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