Flickering when stepping through fallback vdocs
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Description
From @DavisVaughan https://github.com/posit-dev/ark/pull/1046#discussion_r2849416380
debugonce(mutate.data.frame)
mutate(mtcars, x = 1 + "x")
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Research direction
Start with the linked PR discussion and reproduce the R example using debugonce(mutate.data.frame) followed by mutate(mtcars, x = 1 + "x"). Trace the fallback vdocs stepping behavior shown in the attached recording; done means stepping no longer flickers in this reproduction.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- r, rust
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100