Your example works fine for me with R 1.6.2 under Windows 2000. The behaviour that you report should occur if you press RETURN at the browser prompt, but that seems unlikely.
John
At 02:07 PM 1/29/2003 -0500, Pikounis, Bill wrote:
Under v1.6.2, Windows NT4 OS, when a function contains an execution error and I have placed browser() in inside the function body, the call to browser is ignored. A brief example to illustrate:> foo <- function(x) { + y <- x ^ 2 + browser() + foo2(x) ## Intentional error + x ^ 3 + } > > foo(30) Called from: foo(30) Browse[1]> Error in foo(30) : couldn't find function "foo2" ## browser() still seems to be ignored even if a function has no execution error > traceback() 1: foo(30) Has anyone else experienced this? I am using v1.6.2 on Windows NT 4. Under Linux i686 (Mandrake 9.0), the same example works as expected; execution is stopped and I can usefully browser() as it is designed. As always, any advice is welcome. Thanks, Bill ---------------------------------------- Bill Pikounis, Ph.D. Biometrics Research Department Merck Research Laboratories PO Box 2000, MailDrop RY84-16 126 E. Lincoln Avenue Rahway, New Jersey 07065-0900 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 732 594 3913 Fax: 732 594 1565 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
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