R help - Oct 2025 - Invitation to Try My R Package: bughunter

I think you should post this on the R-packages mailing list, here
<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-packages> , if you haven't
already
done so.

-- Bert

On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 4:40?PM Jiefei Wang <szwjf08 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'd like to invite you to try my new R package,
> [bughunter](https://github.com/Jiefei-Wang/bughunter), which I believe
> could be extremely useful for this mailing list.
>
> For a long time, I've noticed that many people struggle to describe
> their bugs clearly when asking for help. One major reason is that we
> lack an easy way to share the full debugging context, typically, only
> the surface-level code can be shared, not the call frames or stack
> information. This makes reproducing someone else's problem quite
> painful.
>
> The idea behind bughunter is to solve this pain point. It
> automatically saves the call frames and code into a single object when
> an error occurs. This object can then be saved and shared with others.
> Moreover, the package provides a user-friendly Shiny interface for
> debugging, designed to look and feel similar to RStudio - there's
> virtually no learning curve.
>
> The package is still in its early development phase, so any feedback
> or suggestions are very welcome. I'm also exploring options for a free
> cloud platform to host and share these R objects so that users won?t
> need to email them manually. If you have any ideas, I'd love to hear
> them.
>
> Best regards,
> Jiefei
>
> ______________________________________________
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> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>
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>>>>> Bert Gunter 
>>>>>     on Sun, 26 Oct 2025 17:34:49 -0700 writes:
    > I think you should post this on the R-packages mailing list, here
    > <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-packages> , if you
haven't already
    > done so.

    > -- Bert

Indeed.  But the package should have become a CRAN package, too.
Why should I try packages that don't even fulfill simple QA
criteria such as those from CRAN  (or - somewhat different ones
- from Bioconductor).

Martin

    > On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 4:40?PM Jiefei Wang <szwjf08 at
gmail.com> wrote:

    >> Hi everyone,
    >> 
    >> I'd like to invite you to try my new R package,
    >> [bughunter](https://github.com/Jiefei-Wang/bughunter), which I
believe
    >> could be extremely useful for this mailing list.
    >> 
    >> For a long time, I've noticed that many people struggle to
describe
    >> their bugs clearly when asking for help. One major reason is that
we
    >> lack an easy way to share the full debugging context, typically,
only
    >> the surface-level code can be shared, not the call frames or stack
    >> information. This makes reproducing someone else's problem
quite
    >> painful.
    >> 
    >> The idea behind bughunter is to solve this pain point. It
    >> automatically saves the call frames and code into a single object
when
    >> an error occurs. This object can then be saved and shared with
others.
    >> Moreover, the package provides a user-friendly Shiny interface for
    >> debugging, designed to look and feel similar to RStudio -
there's
    >> virtually no learning curve.
    >> 
    >> The package is still in its early development phase, so any
feedback
    >> or suggestions are very welcome. I'm also exploring options for
a free
    >> cloud platform to host and share these R objects so that users
won?t
    >> need to email them manually. If you have any ideas, I'd love to
hear
    >> them.
    >> 
    >> Best regards,
    >> Jiefei
    >> 
    >> ______________________________________________
    >> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more,
see
    >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
    >> PLEASE do read the posting guide
    >> https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
    >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
    >> 

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    > ______________________________________________
    > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
    > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
    > PLEASE do read the posting guide
https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
    > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.