Also check out the 'debug' package On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Eran Eidinger <e...@taykey.com> wrote: > Wow, thanks Justin and Liviu, > > DebugOnce and browser. great! > > Eran > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Justin Haynes <jto...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Another great tool is debugonce() >> >> wrap your function name in it and then execute your function call. >> >> debugonce(my.function) >> >> out<-my.function(df) >> >> And you'll be brought into the same interactive browser. (its Vi if im not >> mistaken which can take a little getting used to.) >> >> >> Justin >> >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Liviu Andronic >> <landronim...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Eran Eidinger <e...@taykey.com> wrote: >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > I am not sure if this is the right list to ask this question (though I >>> did >>> > not find a more appropriate one). >>> > I've started using R a month ago, and small scripts work fine. However, >>> when >>> > I start writing more complex code, it gets messy. >>> > >>> > 1. Is there any way to debug "normally", with breakpoints? >>> > >>> >>> > fortune('browser') >>> >>> My solution when I run into mysteries like this is to put 'browser()' in >>> the >>> function just before or after the line of interest. The magnitude and >>> direction >>> of my stupidity usually become clear quickly. >>> -- Patrick Burns >>> R-help (February 2006) >>> >>> >>> Use browser() to inspect the environment and execute the code one step >>> at a time. >>> Liviu >>> >>> >>> >2. I am using the Eclipse plugin (StatET), and tried JGR(). Is there an >>> IDE >>> > that enables breakpoints? >>> > 3. Is there an equivalent to "include" in other programming languages? >>> So >>> > many functions in one file are very messy. I would like to break it to >>> > several files. >>> > 4. Any way to create a "local" context of variables inside a function? >>> > Otherwise I have to be careful to give different names inside functions, >>> to >>> > those in the workspace. >>> > >>> > I should point that I am a long time Matlab user and am probably >>> expecting >>> > some things that don't necessarily exist in R... >>> > >>> > I know it's a lot, if there is a more appropriate forum to ask these, >>> please >>> > point me in that direction. >>> > >>> > Thanks, >>> > Eran. >>> > >>> > * >>> > >>> > * >>> > >>> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> > >>> > ______________________________________________ >>> > R-help@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. >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Do you know how to read? >>> http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm >>> http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader >>> Do you know how to write? >>> http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help@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. >>> >> >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@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. >
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