Re: Invitation to Try My R Package: bughunter

I think you should post this on the R-packages mailing list, here
<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-packages> , if you haven't already
done so.

-- Bert

On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM Jiefei Wang <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'd like to invite you to try my new R package,
> [bughunter](https://github.com/Jiefei-Wang/bughunter), which I believe
> could be extremely useful for this mailing list.
>
> For a long time, I've noticed that many people struggle to describe
> their bugs clearly when asking for help. One major reason is that we
> lack an easy way to share the full debugging context, typically, only
> the surface-level code can be shared, not the call frames or stack
> information. This makes reproducing someone else's problem quite
> painful.
>
> The idea behind bughunter is to solve this pain point. It
> automatically saves the call frames and code into a single object when
> an error occurs. This object can then be saved and shared with others.
> Moreover, the package provides a user-friendly Shiny interface for
> debugging, designed to look and feel similar to RStudio - there's
> virtually no learning curve.
>
> The package is still in its early development phase, so any feedback
> or suggestions are very welcome. I'm also exploring options for a free
> cloud platform to host and share these R objects so that users won’t
> need to email them manually. If you have any ideas, I'd love to hear
> them.
>
> Best regards,
> Jiefei
>
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