Debugging Guide for IDEAR (R Version)

When you run into errors when execute IDEAR (R version), you can run IDEAR chunk by chunk to narrow down where the error happened and therefore find the root cause. The following steps offer a general guidance for preliminary debugging.

• Open IDEAR.rmd in RStudio
• First navigate to the first section (Task summary) and click "Run -> Run Current Chunk". This section loads the yaml file and initializes global variables which will be used in the following sections for visualization. The the first chunk should be executed in the first place.
• The following chunks can be executed independently with no ordering requirement. Navigate to a given chunk and then click "Run -> Run Current Chunk". Running each chunk will start a Shiny App in your web browser.
• Check the messages in the RStudio console to spot any clues for the cause of an error.