[ESS] Debugging in R

[Martin Maechler]

Thank you, Kasper,

>>>>> "Kasper" == Kasper Daniel Hansen <kaha at biostat.ku.dk>
>>>>>     on Fri, 24 Jun 2005 04:40:39 +0200 (CEST) writes:

    Kasper> .....

    Kasper> For my case, everything I have tried works fine. And
    Kasper> I am positive that options(error = recover) works
    Kasper> fine.

yes and no.
It works fine for its own purpose, but it does "hang" part of
the "interactivity" of ESS, e.g., C-c C-v (display-help..) or
 "object name completion"  {you "only" need  'C-g' to interrupt
the hanging ESS here}.

I've also only recently persuaded myself that this needs to be
dealt with --- and probably rather sooner than later.

Martin

    Kasper> Have you set you editor to something strange? I get
    >> getOption("editor")
    Kasper> [1] "emacsclient"

(yes,  that's a good setting and you should get it as default,
 at least in GNU emacs)

    Kasper> Kasper

    Kasper> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Ross Boylan wrote:

    >> Using ESS for R doesn't yield very helpful errors (error message only;
    >> no stack trace; no indication of the source line even if C-c C-l), and
    >> recover() is not invoked (apparently it is not on by default in R).
    >> 
    >> I did options(error=recover), and discovered why that was off under ESS,
    >> at least.  The session hung completely.  I assume the process running R
    >> didn't know where to get or send input (which is a bit weird, since
    >> that's what I do in regular interaction).
    >> 
    >> I switched to running R from a terminal for diagnosis, but I hope
    >> there's a better way.
    >> 
    >> The info file seems to be more about debugging problems with ESS.  I'm
    >> concerned with problems in my code or data.
    >> 
    >> The only index entry for debugging just had stuff about interactively
    >> evaluating code snippets.  A search of the index file also turned up a
    >> variable that could be set.  This looked as if it might be more for
    >> debugging ESS, and it gave a backtrace.  Even if that's of the R code,
    >> it still doesn't put me in an interactive debugging environment.
    >> 
    >> Thanks.
    >> 
    >> P.S.  Is there any good way to search the list archives?
    >> -- 
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