-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/10/12 09:42, Rainer M Krug wrote: > On 09/10/12 06:12, Worik R wrote: >> I think I am whistling in the wind, but is there a modern symbolic debugger >> for R >> programmes? > >> I am working through some one else's code, thousands of lines, that has the >> occasional bug >> in it, and a lot in my understanding of it. > >> I cannot make setBreakpoint or findLineNum work. I get "No source refs >> found.". I am >> starting to loose my mind! > >> A debugger where I could set breakpoints with a little more granularity than >> the function >> level and a little more accessible than the trace function. What I ideally >> want is GDB for >> R. > >> Does that exist? > > There is quite some debugging fuctionality available in ESS for emacs > (http://ess.r-project.org/) and I rmrmber a presentation at useR in 2011 that > there is as well > in eclipse, but there you have to used,. as far as I remember, a patched > version of R. > > So I would suggest to look into ESS for a debugger.
Just found http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2854820/statet-debugging-tool and http://www.walware.de/?page=/it/downloads/statet.mframe Cheers, Rainer > > Cheers, > > Rainer > > >> cheers Worik > > > - -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlBz1hwACgkQoYgNqgF2egqqXwCfd1YhQTNywjJH96cvgzXoZ0Lx 6voAn33G6NuA7YBIOdypVgOKIY+peiA1 =NBYG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ______________________________________________ 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.