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Hello R experts, I plan to develop a tool for dynamic analysis of R programs. I would like to trace function calls at runtime, capturing argument and return values. Following a suggestion made some time ago on this list, my high-level implementation strategy is to rewrite the AST, augmenting call expressions with pre-call and post-call shims to capture the arguments and return value,

...creating unit tests by recording argument and return values of calls. This is done by instrumentation of the source code. The git repo with the code is here https://github.com/PRL-PRG/genthat We don?t really deal with NSE though. It could be something worth thinking about for us. The contact for genthtat is Filip. We are also writing a tool for analyzing promises and generating execution traces within the R VM. This is available in https://github.com/PRL-PRG/R-dyntrace Aviral and Konrad are the contacts there. Best, jan Jan Vitek, Professor Computer Science, Northeastern Univers...