Cannot launch in RStudio with null data argument

[prubin73]

I've tested both the CRAN and GitHub versions, and the problem exists in both. Running R from a terminal, esquisse::esquisser() works fine (using the default web browser). From an RStudio session, esquisse::esquisser(some_data_frame) works as expected, but esquisse::esquisser() throws an error:

Error in if (is.null(data) && defaultData %in% ls(pos = globalenv())) { :
missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed

RStudio version: 1.1.456 
Session information:
R version 3.4.4 (2018-03-15)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Linux Mint 18.3

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /usr/lib/libblas/libblas.so.3.6.0
LAPACK: /usr/lib/lapack/liblapack.so.3.6.0

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] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] Rcpp_0.12.19       pillar_1.3.0       compiler_3.4.4     RColorBrewer_1.1-2
 [5] later_0.7.5        plyr_1.8.4         bindr_0.1.1        shinyWidgets_0.4.3
 [9] tools_3.4.4        digest_0.6.17      jsonlite_1.5       tibble_1.4.2      
[13] gtable_0.2.0       pkgconfig_2.0.2    rlang_0.2.2        shiny_1.1.0       
[17] rstudioapi_0.8     yaml_2.2.0         bindrcpp_0.2.2     dplyr_0.7.6       
[21] stringr_1.3.1      grid_3.4.4         tidyselect_0.2.4   glue_1.3.0        
[25] R6_2.3.0           ggplot2_3.0.0      purrr_0.2.5        magrittr_1.5      
[29] scales_1.0.0       promises_1.0.1     ggthemes_4.0.1     htmltools_0.3.6   
[33] assertthat_0.2.0   xtable_1.8-3       esquisse_0.1.5.900 mime_0.6          
[37] colorspace_1.3-2   httpuv_1.4.5       stringi_1.2.4      miniUI_0.1.1.1    
[41] lazyeval_0.2.1     munsell_0.5.0      crayon_1.3.4    

[pvictor]

Hello,
I've made some changes, can you intall dev version and retry ?

devtools::install_github("dreamRs/esquisse")

Victor

[prubin73]

The new version fails with a different error:

Error in if (nzchar(context_select)) { : argument is of length zero

Again, it launches fine when running R in a terminal, but fails when in RStudio.

[prubin73]

I've been running the command (unsuccessfully) in the RStudio console. I discovered (through a bunch of experiments you don't care about) that having a file of any type (even an empty text file) open in the RStudio editor lets the command run successfully in the console. If I close all open files, the command fails again.

[pvictor]

Thanks for all your experiments. I think it's related to rstudioapi, which version do you have ? I have 0.7, maybe try to update.

I've added a call to isTRUE so that the condition don't fail, just in case.

Victor

[prubin73]

I have version 0.8 of rstudioapi.

Your latest patch seems to have fixed it for me. Thanks! I'll leave it up to you to close the ticket or not.

Paul

[pvictor]

Oups, I'm the one who's not up to date. And now I can reproduce your error ! Definitely linked to rstudioapi. Thanks for the report !

Victor