I am not sure...

How do I make sure about that?

esp " Are you sure you were executing the same function after you hit c?"?

Thanks again!

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>wrote:

> On 06/12/2011 9:47 AM, Michael wrote:
>
>> It printed:
>>
>> c:\R\myproject1\myfile.R#38:
>>  myfunc1 step  6,4,9 in<environment: R_GlobalEnv>
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>
> So that set a breakpoint in the copy of the function in the global
> environment.  Are you sure you were executing the same function after you
> hit c?  If you were working on code in a package, you may have been
> executing the function in the namespace of the package, not the one in the
> global environment.
>
> If that's not the case, then are you sure you ever got to that line?  You
> can see where the breakpoint was set using
>
> body(myfunc1)[[c(6,4,9)]]
>
> (Watch the parens and brackets!)
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>  Thank you!
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Duncan 
>> Murdoch<murdoch.duncan@gmail.**com<murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>
>> >wrote:
>>
>> >  On 11-12-05 10:32 PM, Michael wrote:
>> >
>> >>  Hi all,
>> >>
>> >>  I am in the middle of debugging which is stopped using "browser()"...
>> in
>> >>  myfile.R at around line #25.
>> >>
>> >>  I was then stuck in a big loop which I want to escape and stop the
>> program
>> >>  at the line after the big loop.
>> >>
>> >>  In the debugging mode, I used
>> >>
>> >>     Browse[2]>   setBreakpoint("myfile.R#38")
>> >>
>> >
>> >  What did it print?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >>  I then typed "c" and "ENTER", thinking that it will continue to
>> execute
>> >>  until when it comes across line #38 and then stop there...
>> >>
>> >>  But it didn't work - it continued the execution until the end of the
>> >>  function, right at the line "return(results)"...
>> >>
>> >>  What happened? How to solve this problem?
>> >>
>> >
>> >  One of the complications in R is that you can have multiple copies of a
>> >  function in memory.  You may (or may not, what did it print??) have
>> set a
>> >  breakpoint in one copy, then run another.  Or you may have edited that
>> >  function after originally sourcing it, and lost the source reference.
>> >
>> >  An alternative to using setBreakpoint is just to edit a call to
>> browser()
>> >  into the function.  It's less convenient, but more robust.
>> >
>> >  Duncan Murdoch
>> >
>> >
>> >  Thanks a lot!
>> >>
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