R help - Sep 2013 - set breakpoint in debug

Hi All,

I need some help regarding how to set up a breakpoint in debug. For example, I
have a very simple/naïve function (a useless function just for demo)

f = function()
{
    x = 10;
    len = 100;

    a = 1;
    for(i in 1:len)
    {
        a = a * i;
    }

y = x + a;
y;
}


If I need to debug it, I can run debug(f). After I go into the debugger, if I
want to skip the loop and stop in the statement y = y + a, directly, how to do
that? I know R has a function named setBreakpoint but I have never used it
correctly.

Your help is highly appreciated.

HXD

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You could just use debug(f) and then when the Browser opens and the loop begins
type 'c', that jumps over the loop to next line after the loop.

Best

Simon

On Sep 16, 2013, at 9:05 PM, Hui Du <Hui.Du at dataventures.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I need some help regarding how to set up a breakpoint in debug. For
example, I have a very simple/na?ve function (a useless function just for demo)
> 
> f = function()
> {
>    x = 10;
>    len = 100;
> 
>    a = 1;
>    for(i in 1:len)
>    {
>        a = a * i;
>    }
> 
> y = x + a;
> y;
> }
> 
> 
> If I need to debug it, I can run debug(f). After I go into the debugger, if
I want to skip the loop and stop in the statement y = y + a, directly, how to do
that? I know R has a function named setBreakpoint but I have never used it
correctly.
> 
> Your help is highly appreciated.
> 
> HXD
> 
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> 
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On 16/09/2013 3:05 PM, Hui Du wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I need some help regarding how to set up a breakpoint in debug. For
example, I have a very simple/na?ve function (a useless function just for demo)
>
> f = function()
> {
>      x = 10;
>      len = 100;
>
>      a = 1;
>      for(i in 1:len)
>      {
>          a = a * i;
>      }
>
> y = x + a;
> y;
> }
>
>
> If I need to debug it, I can run debug(f). After I go into the debugger, if
I want to skip the loop and stop in the statement y = y + a, directly, how to do
that? I know R has a function named setBreakpoint but I have never used it
correctly.
After you have gone into the debugger, it's too late.  setBreakpoint 
works by modifying the body of the function, and the evaluator has 
already retrieved the body of the function when you enter.

You can set a breakpoint in a function that is not executing from the 
top level or from the debugger, and it will stop there on the next 
invocation.   The syntax is something like:

setBreakpoint("filename.R#11")

assuming that the spot where you want to stop is line 11 in the source 
file filename.R where your function came from.  (In July at useR 2013 
the RStudio folks were demonstrating a GUI that did the same sort of thing.)

It has been requested that setBreakpoint should be able to work on the 
active function as well as inactive ones, and there is no fundamental 
reason why that would be impossible, but it is tricky to manipulate 
expressions in the middle of evaluating them, so that's not in place (yet?).

Duncan Murdoch
>
> Your help is highly appreciated.
>
> HXD
>
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>
>
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.