Hi, On Thursday 27 October 2011, meik michalke wrote: > i discovered the "debugger frames" in the svn version -- very nice > addition! of course i began experimenting at once :-) > > maybe its a bit early, but what i would love to see in the debugging > console (next to syntax highlighting and a clearer visualisation where we > are at the moment) is instant context information on objects/variables. > imagine you wouldn't have to type in an object name to examine it, but > only place the mouse pointer over it to get all relevant information -- > especially on its value(s) -- in a tooltip. that would be awesome! but i > can vividly imagine thomas collapsing while reading this :-D
well, this is just a start, and a lot can be done, in fact. One thing that I intend to add soonishly (but not right away) is a "Watched expressions" tool window. This would basically allow you to define a list of R statements which will be interpreted after each step in the debugger (and probably, optionally also after each regular top-level command). The debugging console should clearly look more or less like the regular R Console (+ the buttons) in the mid term, but this will be a bit of work. Don't expect anything, too soon. An accurate indication of the current line of code would be nice, but currently, I do not have an idea how to get at that info. If you have an idea on that, I'm all ears. Object info as tool tips sounds great, but one pre-requirement would be that we can reliably identify symbols in the output. I don't think this will be possible within a reasonable effort. This might be integrated into the "Debugger Frames" window (which already shows local object names), and / or the "Workspace Browser" somehow, though. Either way, this will be more work than the "Watched expressions", while addressing a similar need, and so this will probably have to wait. Regards Thomas
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