plyr 1.8 breaks ggplot2 0.9.3 (?)

[bbolker]

This was reported on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13765835/unusual-error-in-all-ggplot2-commands

(I note that the plot appears just fine, so this is really just a nuisance ...)

I couldn't reproduce it with ggplot2 0.9.3 until I updated plyr to 1.8, then I could:

> library(ggplot2)
qplot(1:10,1> ,y=1:10)1:10
The following `from` values were not present in `x`: col, color, pch, cex, lty, lwd, srt, adj, bg, fg, min, max
The following `from` values were not present in `x`: col, color, pch, cex, lty, lwd, srt, adj, bg, fg, min, max
The following `from` values were not present in `x`: col, color, pch, cex, lty, lwd, srt, adj, bg, fg, min, max
The following `from` values were not present in `x`: col, color, pch, cex, lty, lwd, srt, adj, bg, fg, min, max
The following `from` values were not present in `x`: col, color, pch, cex, lty, lwd, srt, adj, bg, fg, min, max
> sessionInfo()
R Under development (unstable) (2012-11-20 r61133)
Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)

locale: [snip]
attached base packages: [snip]
other attached packages:
[1] ggplot2_0.9.3

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] colorspace_1.2-0   dichromat_1.2-4    digest_0.5.2       grid_2.16.0       
 [5] gtable_0.1.1       labeling_0.2       MASS_7.3-22        munsell_0.4       
 [9] plyr_1.8           proto_0.3-9.2      RColorBrewer_1.0-5 reshape2_1.2.1    
[13] scales_0.2.3       stringr_0.6.1     
> 

[wch]

This is probably the same issue as hadley/plyr#122. There's some sort of issue with upgrading plyr, and ggplot2. Also see http://blog.rstudio.org/2012/12/06/ggplot2-plyr-release/

[bbolker]

Weird. I had installed both from source (although separately) on Ubuntu 12.04. Re-running install.packages(c("ggplot2","plyr")) appears to have fixed it. (... ??? ...) Sorry for the extra noise.

[hadley]

@bbolker don't blame yourself, blame install.packages.

[juancentro]

I tried installing separately, then together, then again separately, but I still receive the same error. @hadley @bbolker any suggestion? Also, the warning about doMC not being available was always there? It's harmless, right?

[bbolker]

@juancentro : I still don't claim to understand this, but have you followed the instructions exactly (open clean R sesssion (say, command-line version with --vanilla, just to be sure) and install.packages(c("ggplot2","plyr"),dependencies=TRUE)) ? And you don't have any versions of these packages stashed away in other libraries?

[juancentro]

@bbolker thanks for the answer. I hadn't tried the vanilla option. The issue remains unsolved though

[bbolker]

i1 <- installed.packages(); i1["plyr",] ... ?

[wch]

I just tried installing in a clean session on Windows XP, and I'm running into the same problem! But it only seems to happen in Windows for me.

This should work, but for some reason, the correct version of plyr isn't getting installed in Windows:

install.packages(c("ggplot2", "gtable", "scales", "plyr"))

[juancentro]

Today I installed from the RStudio mirror plyr and ggplot2 at the same time and the issue was solved.

install.packages(c("ggplot2","plyr"),dep=T)

[wch]

OK, glad to hear it worked for you. Since we haven't heard a whole lot of other complaints, I'll close this.