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Environment Browser

Syntax

browser()

Description

A call to browser causes a pause in the execution of the current expression and runs a copy of the R interpreter which has access to variables local to the environment where the call took place. Local variables can be listed with ls, and manipulated with R expressions typed to this sub-interpreter. The interpreter copy is exited by typing ^D. Execution then resumes at the statement following the call to browser.

Typing n causes the step through debugger, debug, to start and you then step through the remainder of the function one line at a time.