Re: GDB for R?

On 11/29/2018 02:32 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
>> I would very much like to know if there is any appreciable probability that
>> there will be a GDB debugger for the R language in a time frame of months
>> to single-digit years. I’d also like to know if there is pretty clearly no
>> such probability.
> 
> To the best of my knowledge, I haven't heard any rumours about adding
> R support to GDB. But maybe others have heard something?

I haven't either.

I don't know much about how R works.  E.g., does it compile down to native
code?  Or to some byte code that is JIT compiled at run time?  Or is
it fully interpreted?

Thanks,
Pedro Alves