R help - Oct 2006 - how to set debug breaks

Hi,

I am new in R and have some frustrations as how to set debug breaks during
emacs R debug.  I use debug () as where or which function to debug.  But
during the debug, e.g., I have a for loop at the beginning of the function
code and want the code execution to jump through that for loop and set a
break after that.  How to do that?  Is there a web site detailing the syntax
of the debugging of R?  Hopefully it would be similar to java or C syntax.

Thanks.

waverley

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On 10/30/2006 1:37 PM, waverley palo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am new in R and have some frustrations as how to set debug breaks during
> emacs R debug.  I use debug () as where or which function to debug.  But
> during the debug, e.g., I have a for loop at the beginning of the function
> code and want the code execution to jump through that for loop and set a
> break after that.  How to do that?  Is there a web site detailing the
syntax
> of the debugging of R?  Hopefully it would be similar to java or C syntax.
The debug() function doesn't support setting breakpoints except at 
function entry, but I believe the debug package does.

Duncan Murdoch

On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 10:37 -0800, waverley palo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am new in R and have some frustrations as how to set debug breaks during
> emacs R debug.  I use debug () as where or which function to debug.  But
> during the debug, e.g., I have a for loop at the beginning of the function
> code and want the code execution to jump through that for loop and set a
> break after that.  How to do that?  Is there a web site detailing the
syntax
> of the debugging of R?  Hopefully it would be similar to java or C syntax.
See ?debug, in particular the use of c to run to the end of the current
context. So you can debug as before, but use c to run through the loop.

Alternatively, see ?browser, which drops you into the debugger wherever
you insert the browser() command, e.g.:

	
foo <- function(n = 10) {
	for(i in 1:n) {
	cat(paste("Doing something #", i, "\r"))
	Sys.sleep(0.5)
	}
	cat("\nFinished loop\n")
	browser()
	X <- runif(100)
	sumX <- sum(X)
	meanX <- mean(X)
	list(sum = sumX, mean = meanX)
}

Will start debugging foo() after the loop has finished.

You might also find Mark Bravington's debug package useful as it
implements further functions for debugging in R

HTH

G
> Thanks.
> 
> waverley
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