[Rd] Coping with non-standard evaluation in R program analysis

2018-01-02 Thread Evan James Patterson
Hello R experts, I plan to develop a tool for dynamic analysis of R programs. I would like to trace function calls at runtime, capturing argument and return values. Following a suggestion made some time ago on this list, my high-level implementation strategy is to rewrite the AST, augmenting c

Re: [Rd] Nested tracing with custom callback

2016-07-13 Thread Evan James Patterson
Hi Jeroen, That was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! Evan From: jeroeno...@gmail.com on behalf of Jeroen Ooms Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 4:04 AM To: Evan James Patterson Cc: r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] Nested tracing with custom callback   On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 5

[Rd] Nested tracing with custom callback

2016-07-13 Thread Evan James Patterson
Hi all, I would like to install a trace function that gets executed whenever *any* R function is called. In Python, for example, this functionality is provided by the `sys.settrace` function. I am not aware of any public interface, at the R or C level, that can accomplish this. The `trace` fu