Wow, thanks Justin and Liviu,

DebugOnce and browser. great!

Eran

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Justin Haynes <jtor14@gmail.com> wrote:

> Another great tool is debugonce()
>
> wrap your function name in it and then execute your function call.
>
> debugonce(my.function)
>
> out<-my.function(df)
>
> And you'll be brought into the same interactive browser. (its Vi if im not
> mistaken which can take a little getting used to.)
>
>
> Justin
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Eran Eidinger <eran@taykey.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am not sure if this is the right list to ask this question (though I
>> did
>> > not find a more appropriate one).
>> > I've started using R a month ago, and small scripts work fine. However,
>> when
>> > I start writing more complex code, it gets messy.
>> >
>> > 1. Is there any way to debug "normally", with breakpoints?
>> >
>>
>> > fortune('browser')
>>
>> My solution when I run into mysteries like this is to put 'browser()' in
>> the
>> function just before or after the line of interest. The magnitude and
>> direction
>> of my stupidity usually become clear quickly.
>>   -- Patrick Burns
>>      R-help (February 2006)
>>
>>
>> Use browser() to inspect the environment and execute the code one step
>> at a time.
>> Liviu
>>
>>
>> >2. I am using the Eclipse plugin (StatET), and tried JGR(). Is there an
>> IDE
>> > that enables breakpoints?
>> > 3. Is there an equivalent to "include" in other programming languages?
>> So
>> > many functions in one file are very messy. I would like to break it to
>> > several files.
>> > 4. Any way to create a "local" context of variables inside a function?
>> > Otherwise I have to be careful to give different names inside functions,
>> to
>> > those in the workspace.
>> >
>> > I should point that I am a long time Matlab user and am probably
>> expecting
>> > some things that don't necessarily exist in R...
>> >
>> > I know it's a lot, if there is a more appropriate forum to ask these,
>> please
>> > point me in that direction.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Eran.
>> >
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