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| # Demo of intermittent plotting failures. | |
| # Apparent requirements: | |
| # * Interactive session (I'm in R.app using Quartz graphics) | |
| # * Arranging multiple figures using gridExtra::arrangeGrob | |
| # * Very different figure complexities | |
| # (i.e one plot big enough to have a rendering lag, one that renders much faster.) | |
| # * No graphics device open at beginning of arrangeGrob call | |
| # Gentle reader, can you reproduce this on your machine? | |
| # Can you help me identify where the problem is? | |
| set.seed(34565) | |
| library(ggplot2) | |
| library(gridExtra) | |
| library(grid) | |
| p1 = ggplot(diamonds, aes(x, price))+geom_point() | |
| p2 = ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg))+geom_point() | |
| # Examples that usually fail: | |
| # grid.draw exits with no error, but p1 is only partially drawn | |
| graphics.off() | |
| pp=arrangeGrob(p1, p2) | |
| grid.draw(pp) | |
| graphics.off() | |
| pp=arrangeGrob(p1, p2) | |
| Sys.sleep(1e-3) | |
| grid.draw(pp) | |
| # Usually succeeds | |
| graphics.off() | |
| pp=arrangeGrob(p1, p2) | |
| Sys.sleep(1) | |
| grid.draw(pp) | |
| # Always succeeds | |
| dev.new() | |
| pp=arrangeGrob(p1, p2) | |
| grid.draw(pp) | |
| # "Always" succeeds (thought I saw it fail a few times early in debugging, but now can't reproduce) | |
| graphics.off() | |
| grid.arrange(p1, p2) | |
| sessionInfo() | |
| # R version 3.2.4 (2016-03-10) | |
| # Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit) | |
| # Running under: OS X 10.11.3 (El Capitan) | |
| # | |
| # locale: | |
| # [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 | |
| # | |
| # attached base packages: | |
| # [1] grid stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods | |
| # [8] base | |
| # | |
| # other attached packages: | |
| # [1] gridExtra_2.2.1 ggplot2_2.1.0 | |
| # | |
| # loaded via a namespace (and not attached): | |
| # [1] labeling_0.3 colorspace_1.2-6 scales_0.4.0 plyr_1.8.3 | |
| # [5] tools_3.2.4 gtable_0.2.0 Rcpp_0.12.4 munsell_0.4.3 |
I get:
Fail, Fail, Succeed, Succeed, Succeed.
Tried each one 3x.
devtools::session_info()
Session info -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
setting value
version R version 3.2.4 (2016-03-10)
system x86_64, darwin13.4.0
ui AQUA
language (EN)
collate en_US.UTF-8
tz America/Los_Angeles
date 2016-04-29
Packages -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
package * version date source
colorspace 1.2-6 2015-03-11 CRAN (R 3.2.0)
devtools 1.11.1.9000 2016-04-29 Github (hadley/devtools@fe27701)
digest 0.6.9 2016-01-08 CRAN (R 3.2.3)
ggplot2 * 2.1.0 2016-03-01 CRAN (R 3.2.4)
gridExtra * 2.2.1 2016-02-29 CRAN (R 3.2.4)
gtable 0.2.0.9000 2016-02-26 Github (hadley/gtable@0ed36a4)
labeling 0.3 2014-08-23 CRAN (R 3.2.0)
memoise 1.0.0 2016-01-29 CRAN (R 3.2.3)
munsell 0.4.3 2016-02-13 CRAN (R 3.2.3)
plyr 1.8.3.9000 2015-10-16 Github (hadley/plyr@9d8294e)
Rcpp 0.12.4 2016-03-26 CRAN (R 3.2.4)
scales 0.4.0.9000 2016-02-26 Github (hadley/scales@646b6a4)
withr 1.0.1 2016-02-04 CRAN (R 3.2.3) 
I cannot reproduce. All succeed.
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.2.5 (2016-04-14)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 15.10
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
[3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] grid stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods
[8] base
other attached packages:
[1] gridExtra_2.2.1 ggplot2_2.1.0
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] labeling_0.3 colorspace_1.2-6 scales_0.4.0 plyr_1.8.3
[5] gtable_0.2.0 Rcpp_0.12.3 munsell_0.4.3
I updated to 3.2.5 and updated packages and it's the same for me. FFSSS.
If it's ok on Linux, I postulate that the other thing @karawoo, @infotroph and myself have in common is OS X. Could be a quartz issue of some sort. I have no idea who could help us figure this out though. Perhaps R-SIG-Mac?
The good news is that your example is at least mostly reproducible on OS X.
devtools::session_info()
Session info -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
setting value
version R version 3.2.5 Patched (2016-04-18 r70561)
system x86_64, darwin13.4.0
ui AQUA
language (EN)
collate en_US.UTF-8
tz America/Los_Angeles
date 2016-04-29
Packages -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
package * version date source
colorspace 1.2-6 2015-03-11 CRAN (R 3.2.0)
devtools 1.11.1.9000 2016-04-29 Github (hadley/devtools@fe27701)
digest 0.6.9 2016-01-08 CRAN (R 3.2.3)
ggplot2 * 2.1.0 2016-03-01 CRAN (R 3.2.4)
gridExtra * 2.2.1 2016-02-29 CRAN (R 3.2.4)
gtable 0.2.0.9000 2016-02-26 Github (hadley/gtable@0ed36a4)
labeling 0.3 2014-08-23 CRAN (R 3.2.0)
memoise 1.0.0 2016-01-29 CRAN (R 3.2.3)
munsell 0.4.3 2016-02-13 CRAN (R 3.2.3)
plyr 1.8.3.9000 2015-10-16 Github (hadley/plyr@9d8294e)
Rcpp 0.12.4 2016-03-26 CRAN (R 3.2.4)
scales 0.4.0.9000 2016-02-26 Github (hadley/scales@646b6a4)
withr 1.0.1 2016-02-04 CRAN (R 3.2.3) 
In R.app, I see 1 and 2 fail; the rest succeed.
In RStudio with the RStudio graphics device, all plots succeed, but if I call options("device"="quartz") I can reproduce; 1 and 2 sometimes succeed, 3 and 4 usually succeed, 5 succeeds.
Session info --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
setting value
version R version 3.2.4 Revised (2016-03-16 r70336)
system x86_64, darwin15.3.0
ui RStudio (0.99.878)
language (EN)
collate en_US.UTF-8
tz America/Los_Angeles
date 2016-04-29
Packages ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
package * version date source
colorspace 1.2-6 2015-03-11 CRAN (R 3.2.0)
devtools 1.10.0 2016-01-23 CRAN (R 3.2.3)
digest 0.6.9 2016-01-08 CRAN (R 3.2.3)
ggplot2 * 2.1.0 2016-03-01 CRAN (R 3.2.3)
gridExtra * 2.2.1 2016-02-29 CRAN (R 3.2.4)
gtable 0.2.0 2016-02-26 CRAN (R 3.2.3)
labeling 0.3 2014-08-23 CRAN (R 3.2.0)
memoise 1.0.0 2016-01-29 CRAN (R 3.2.3)
munsell 0.4.3 2016-02-13 CRAN (R 3.2.3)
plyr 1.8.3 2015-06-12 CRAN (R 3.2.1)
Rcpp 0.12.4 2016-03-26 CRAN (R 3.2.4)
rsconnect 0.4.1.11 2016-02-19 Github (rstudio/rsconnect@2419667)
scales 0.4.0 2016-02-26 CRAN (R 3.2.3)
Happy to hear more reports, but I'm leaning towards calling this a Quartz issue and will take it to R-SIG-Mac shortly. Thanks, all!
Saw email on R-Sig-Mac.
Updated to R 3.3.0 this morning and it still happening. So AFAIK whatever is causing it hasn't been fixed.
devtools::session_info()
Session info ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
setting value
version R version 3.3.0 (2016-05-03)
system x86_64, darwin13.4.0
ui AQUA
language (EN)
collate en_US.UTF-8
tz America/Los_Angeles
date 2016-05-05
Packages --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
package * version date source
assertthat 0.1 2013-12-06 CRAN (R 3.3.0)
colorspace 1.2-6 2015-03-11 CRAN (R 3.3.0)
curl 0.9.7 2016-04-10 CRAN (R 3.3.0)
DBI 0.4 2016-05-02 CRAN (R 3.3.0)
devtools 1.11.1.9000 2016-05-05 Github (hadley/devtools@c19c6f6)
digest 0.6.9 2016-01-08 CRAN (R 3.3.0)
dplyr * 0.4.3.9001 2016-05-05 Github (hadley/dplyr@3074cf7)
ggplot2 * 2.1.0 2016-05-05 Github (hadley/ggplot2@59c503b)
git2r 0.14.0 2016-03-13 CRAN (R 3.3.0)
gridExtra * 2.2.1 2016-02-29 cran (@2.2.1)
gtable 0.2.0 2016-02-26 CRAN (R 3.3.0)
httr 1.1.0 2016-01-28 CRAN (R 3.3.0)
knitr 1.12.3 2016-01-22 CRAN (R 3.3.0)
labeling 0.3 2014-08-23 CRAN (R 3.3.0)
magrittr 1.5 2014-11-22 CRAN (R 3.3.0)
memoise 1.0.0 2016-01-29 CRAN (R 3.3.0)
munsell 0.4.3 2016-02-13 CRAN (R 3.3.0)
plyr 1.8.3 2015-06-12 CRAN (R 3.3.0)
purrr * 0.2.1 2016-02-13 CRAN (R 3.3.0)
R6 2.1.2 2016-01-26 CRAN (R 3.3.0)
Rcpp 0.12.4 2016-03-26 CRAN (R 3.3.0)
rstudioapi 0.5 2016-01-24 CRAN (R 3.3.0)
scales 0.4.0 2016-02-26 CRAN (R 3.3.0)
tibble 1.0-1 2016-05-05 Github (hadley/tibble@cb38672)
withr 1.0.1 2016-02-04 CRAN (R 3.3.0)
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My results from trying to reproduce:
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