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Debugging

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Debugging

Roger D. Peng, Associate Professor of Biostatistics


Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Something’s Wrong!
Indications that something’s not right

· message: A generic notification/diagnostic message produced by the message function;


execution of the function continues
· warning: An indication that something is wrong but not necessarily fatal; execution of the
function continues; generated by the warning function

· error: An indication that a fatal problem has occurred; execution stops; produced by the stop
function
· condition: A generic concept for indicating that something unexpected can occur; programmers
can create their own conditions

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Something’s Wrong!
Warning

log(-1)

## Warning: NaNs produced

## [1] NaN

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Something’s Wrong
printmessage <- function(x) {
if(x > 0)
print("x is greater than zero")
else
print("x is less than or equal to zero")
invisible(x)
}

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Something’s Wrong
printmessage <- function(x) {
if (x > 0)
print("x is greater than zero") else print("x is less than or equal to zero")
invisible(x)
}
printmessage(1)

## [1] "x is greater than zero"

printmessage(NA)

## Error: missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed

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Something’s Wrong!
printmessage2 <- function(x) {
if(is.na(x))
print("x is a missing value!")
else if(x > 0)
print("x is greater than zero")
else
print("x is less than or equal to zero")
invisible(x)
}

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Something’s Wrong!
printmessage2 <- function(x) {
if (is.na(x))
print("x is a missing value!") else if (x > 0)
print("x is greater than zero") else print("x is less than or equal to zero")
invisible(x)
}
x <- log(-1)

## Warning: NaNs produced

printmessage2(x)

## [1] "x is a missing value!"

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Something’s Wrong!
How do you know that something is wrong with your function?

· What was your input? How did you call the function?

· What were you expecting? Output, messages, other results?


· What did you get?
· How does what you get differ from what you were expecting?

· Were your expectations correct in the first place?


· Can you reproduce the problem (exactly)?

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