Searching bugs on Bugzilla
Last updated on 2022-06-28 | Edit this page
Overview
Questions
- Have you tried searching bugs on Bugzilla before?
Objectives
- Before reporting a bug in R, we should first check if it has already been reported in Bugzilla
- Learning how to search a bug that is already reported on Bugzilla
Introduction
This lesson is divided into challenges that help you to understand how to report a bug related to using rbind()
with data.frames
.
Challenge 1: First attempt at searching bugs!
Once your are on the Bugzilla webpage, follow the instructions below to locate the reports:
- Search
rbind data.frame
using the search box in the navigation bar of Bugzilla - How many bugs are returned?
OUTPUT
[1] "There will be a screenshot of the solution here. Will be added soon!"
Challenge 2: Search using Simple Search
!
- Search
rbind data.frame
using theSimple Search
function - How many bugs are returned?
- Can you work out why it is different from that in Challenge 1?
Will be added soon! You can add a line with at least three colons and a solution
tag.
Challenge 3: Search using Advanced Search
!
- Search “rbind data.frame” using the Advanced Search function
- How many bugs are returned?
- Can you work out why it is different from Challenge 2?
Will be added soon! You can add a line with at least three colons and a solution
tag.
Challenge 4: Bonus Challenge!
Can you get Advanced Search
to return the same results as Challenge 1?
Will be added soon! You can add a line with at least three colons and a solution
tag.
Keypoints
- Use the Bugzilla webpage to complete the exercises in this lesson
- For more on bug-reporting, see https://contributor.r-project.org/rdevguide/bug-tracking.html.
- You can also search the R-Devel mailing lists by Googling
\{search terms\} site:/stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/
.