On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 04:44 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> [My very deepest apologies in advance if this is not plain text; I am
> recently at a new job in a windows-based environment and have
> not yet set up my favorite old (pine) system. I have tried my best to
> strip all formatting from the message..]
>
> I'm overlaying plots of tree locations mapped before and after
> logging activities and checking my matched individuals using
> several arguments to text() which plot tree attributes by or
> near their (x,y) locations. R 2.1 dies when a coding error on
> my part results in a null data.frame...
>
> Example:
>
> plot(1)
> text(NULL ~ NULL, label=NULL)
>
> This happens for me under Windows 98 and XP. Andrew Robinson
> was kind enough to try it for me on FreeBSD with the same result.
> The code returns nothing for me under R 1.9 on Windows 98 and
> XP (same win. machines). The version details of the three
> are as follows:
>
> # FreeBSD:
>
> >version
> _
> platform i386-portbld-freebsd5.3
> arch i386
> os freebsd5.3
> system i386, freebsd5.3
> status
> major 2
> minor 0.1
> year 2004
> month 11
> day 15
> language R
>
> # Windows XP:
>
> > version
> _
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch i386
> os mingw32
> system i386, mingw32
> status
> major 2
> minor 0.1
> year 2004
> month 11
> day 15
> language R
>
> # Windows 98:
>
> > version
> _
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch i386
> os mingw32
> system i386, mingw32
> status
> major 2
> minor 0.1
> year 2004
> month 11
> day 15
> language R
>
> Please let me know if I can add any more details-
>
> Thank you,
>
> Rob
Your subject line and body refer to R version 2.1, which technically
does not exist as 2.1.0 is the current development version.
However, your output above indicates that R version 2.0.1 is what you
have installed on the three platforms. That is the current released
version.
In either case, using:
Version 2.0.1 Patched (2005-01-02)
I get the following:
> plot(1)
> text(NULL ~ NULL, label=NULL)
Error in text(xy.coords(x, y, recycle = TRUE), labels, adj, pos,
offset, :
no coordinates were supplied
Same thing with:
> plot(1)
> text(NULL, NULL, label = NULL)
Error in text.default(NULL, NULL, label = NULL) :
x and y lengths differ in text().
No crash.
There is the following note in the NEWS file for 2.0.1 patched:
"text()'s default method could segfault if passed 0-length coordinates."
So I believe that this fixes the issue that you have posted about.
A patched version for Windows is available via CRAN:
http://www.cran.mirrors.pair.com/bin/windows/base/rpatched.html
and a source code tarball is available for the *nix versions via the FTP
link under the R Sources link:
ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R/
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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