Hi Thomas,

I found a package called Rprofmem(). Is it the one you are referring to?

Thanks.

Sincerely,
Jialin Huang


On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Thomas Lumley <tlum...@uw.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 7:14 AM, jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Learn some basic debugging for R.  There are several functions (debug,
> > browser, ...) that can help.  Put the following in your Startup
> > script:
> >
> > options(error=utils::recover)
> >
> > or at least execute it manually.  This will give you the trace of the
> > stack when the error happens and may help you identify the statement
> > that is causing the problem.  This may allow you to examine the
> > various objects you have at that point in time.
> >
> > So there are ways that you can find out what the problem is, but you
> > will have to invest some time in learning how to debug your code.
> > There is also the 'debug' package which provides a nice way of tracing
> > execution in a function, but I think first follow the hints above to
> > trap when the error occurs so you can trace down what is causing it.
> >
>
> There is also the memory profiler, if your version of R is compiled to
> include it.  That will show what functions are doing memory
> allocation.
>
>    -thomas
>
> --
> Thomas Lumley
> Professor of Biostatistics
> University of Auckland
>

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