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Re:R is a joy if you treat it like Awk by lliamander on Monday October 07, 2019 @06:18PM (#21186587)
It the little bits of R programming I've done, the biggest pain for me was debugging. If something fails, I had no idea what line of code the error happened. Since some of the functions were rather long, step-wise debugging was laborious.
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Re:R is a joy if you treat it like Awk by scottlocklin on Monday October 07, 2019 @07:27PM (#21187085)
Yeah, I had this problem until I discovered options(error=recover) which drops you into a nice lispy stack. And ya, someone told me about it: I don't know where you'd read about such things. There's probably a dozen alternatives I also don't know where to read about.
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Re:R is a joy if you treat it like Awk by Eugeleo on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @12:25PM (#21193959)
Theres a pretty nice chapter on debugging in the great book Advanced R [1]. Hadley for the rescue! (As is commonplace in the context of R)

[1]: https://adv-r.hadley.nz/debugging.html

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Re:R is a joy if you treat it like Awk by eliashaddad on Thursday October 10, 2019 @10:28AM (#21214891)
Besides the aforementioned browser(), try() and tryCatch(), you would check the packages assertive and assertr to guarantee the expected inputs, and testthat to create tests for your scripts. All awesome.
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Re:R is a joy if you treat it like Awk by gbrown on Monday October 07, 2019 @08:07PM (#21187347)
It's got tryCatch, and the browser function works wonders.
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