[R] need help with debug package

Tong Wang
Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:04:48 -0000

I think I have figured out part of the answer,  when I entered a debugger, the
calling environment (parent frame)
refers to the debugger program, instead of the mainfun( ).   But is there anyway
to solve this problem ?

thanks

----- Original Message -----
From: Tong Wang <wangtong at usc.edu>
Date: Wednesday, January 3, 2007 9:30 pm
Subject: need help with debug package
To: R help <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>

> Hi all,
>      I met a problem while using the debug package,  I have the
> following program:
>
> mainfun<- function(){
>           beta<-1
>           result<-subfun(beta+x)
> }
>
> subfun<-function(expr){
>           y <- eval(expr, envir=list(x=c(1,2)),enclos =
> parent.frame())          return(y)
> }
>
> I have no problem using this program without calling the debug
> package.   but once
> I mtrace(subfun),  the debugger can't find all the beta after
> entering subfun , and give
> the message :     "Error in beta : non-numeric argument to binary
> operator"
> Is there anyway to get around ?
>
> thanks a lot
> happy new year
>