Searching bugs on Bugzilla

Estimated time 25 minutes

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

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This lesson is divided into challenges that help you to understand how to report a bug related to using rbind() with data.frames.

Instructor Note

Under construction!

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

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 the Simple Search function
• How many bugs are returned?
• Can you work out why it is different from that in Challenge 1?

Show me the solution

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?

Show me the solution

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?

Show me the solution

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/.