Cosima Meyer explains how debugging works in R with RStudio:
Three basic commands in RStudio let you do the debugging:
debug(function_name)
,browser()
, andundebug(function_name)
.With
debug(function_name)
you start the debugging of your function – it’s basically like a mole that digs in. When you’re in debug mode, you can also call the objects in your function.
Read the whole thing to learn the power of debugging beyond the print()
statement. H/T R-Bloggers.