[R] Invitation to Try My R Package: bughunter

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Bert Gunter 
>>>>>     on Sun, 26 Oct 2025 17:34:49 -0700 writes:

    > I think you should post this on the R-packages mailing list, here
    > <https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-packages> , if you haven't already
    > done so.

    > -- Bert

Indeed.  But the package should have become a CRAN package, too.
Why should I try packages that don't even fulfill simple QA
criteria such as those from CRAN  (or - somewhat different ones
- from Bioconductor).

Martin

    > On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM Jiefei Wang <szwjf08 using gmail.com> wrote:

    >> Hi everyone,
    >> 
    >> I'd like to invite you to try my new R package,
    >> [bughunter](https://github.com/Jiefei-Wang/bughunter), which I believe
    >> could be extremely useful for this mailing list.
    >> 
    >> For a long time, I've noticed that many people struggle to describe
    >> their bugs clearly when asking for help. One major reason is that we
    >> lack an easy way to share the full debugging context, typically, only
    >> the surface-level code can be shared, not the call frames or stack
    >> information. This makes reproducing someone else's problem quite
    >> painful.
    >> 
    >> The idea behind bughunter is to solve this pain point. It
    >> automatically saves the call frames and code into a single object when
    >> an error occurs. This object can then be saved and shared with others.
    >> Moreover, the package provides a user-friendly Shiny interface for
    >> debugging, designed to look and feel similar to RStudio - there's
    >> virtually no learning curve.
    >> 
    >> The package is still in its early development phase, so any feedback
    >> or suggestions are very welcome. I'm also exploring options for a free
    >> cloud platform to host and share these R objects so that users won’t
    >> need to email them manually. If you have any ideas, I'd love to hear
    >> them.
    >> 
    >> Best regards,
    >> Jiefei
    >> 
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