StatET debugging tool

Question

I think I'm just being dense, but I can't seem to figure out how to use the debugging tool while working in R in Eclipse (StatET plugin). Has anyone got any tips or tutorials on the subject?

Answer 1

StatET 2.00+ now has experimental support for advanced/visual debugging. It requires Eclipse 3.6 or 3.7

Installation instructions are here

You can see a snippet of video from UseR! 2011 here

EDIT: StatET 2.0.0 released or later includes the integrated debugger and is available here

Answer 2

The debug framework in Eclipse is not setup to work with R.

Roman Francois had considered having someone code up an integrated debugger that could possibly integrate with Eclipse/Stat-et, but I'm not sure that project progressed.

http://www.r-project.org/soc09/ideas.html#p5

The only "traditional" debugger that I know of that works with R is Revolution's IDE,

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2009/11/rpe-the-r-productivity-environment-for-windows.html

That said, I would love to have a debugger for the Stat-et plugin too.