Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 5/22/2009 10:59 AM, Michael wrote:
Really I think if there is a Visual Studio strength debugger, our
collective time spent in developing R code will be greatly reduced.
If someone who knows how to write a debugger plugin for Eclipse wants
to help, we could have that fairly easily. All the infrastructure is
there; it's the UI part that's missing.
Duncan Murdoch
[I've copied Mark Bravington and Robert Gentleman to the list as they
are likely to have views here, and I am not sure they monitor R-help]
Hello,
Making a front-end to debugging was one of the proposed google summer of
code for this year [1], it was not retained eventually, but I am still
motivated.
Pretty much all infrastructure is there, and some work has been done
__very recently__ in R's debugging internals (ability to step up). As I
see it, the ability to call some sort of hook each time the debugger
waits for input would make it much easier for someone to write
front-ends. A recent post of mine (patch included) [2] on R-devel
suggested a custom prompt for browser which would do the trick, but I
now think that a hook would be more appropriate. Without something
similar to that, there is no way that I know of for making a front-end,
unless maybe if you embed R ... (please let me know how I am wrong)
There is also the debug package [3,4] which does __not__ work with R
internals but rather works with instrumenting tricks at the R level.
debug provides a tcl/tk front-end. It is my understanding that it does
not work using R internals (do_browser, ...) because it was not possible
at the time, and I believe this is still not possible today, but I might
be wrong. I'd prefer to be wrong actually.
Romain
[1] : http://www.r-project.org/soc09/ideas.html#p5
[2] : https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2009-April/053128.html
[3] : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/debug/index.html
[4] : http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2003-3.pdf
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