Error in serialize(object, connection = NULL, ascii = ascii) : object 'direction' not found

[englianhu]

Used to work few months ago, updated to latest version but faced below error.

> library('directlabels')
> direct.label(ggplot(melted, aes(x=Sess, y=value/1000000, fill=variable, color=variable)) + geom_bar(stat='identity', colour='black', position='dodge') + xlab('Year') + ylab("HKD ('000,000)") + theme_wsj(base_family='Verdana') + scale_colour_wsj('colors6', '') + ggtitle("Annual Turnover and P&L HKD ('000,000)"), list(last.bumpup,hjust=0.45,cex=0.65))
- Error in serialize(object, connection = NULL, ascii = ascii) : 
-   object 'direction' not found

[tdhock]

I can't help you without a minimal reproducible example. Please post one here or on stackoverflow http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=directlabels

[ringprince]

I am seeing the same issue. It happens when I use the theme_fivethirtyeight.

Here is a reproducible example:

library("dplyr")
library("ggplot2")
library("directlabels")
library("ggthemes")

## create data
aaa <- structure(
  list(x = c(28, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 
             18, 17, 28, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17),
       count = c(2344L, 
                 4088L, 3247L, 2808L, 2046L, 1669L, 1315L, 951L, 610L, 543L, 469L, 
                 370L, 937L, 1116L, 550L, 379L, 282L, 204L, 174L, 160L, 136L, 
                 132L, 128L, 122L),
       term = c("aaa", "aaa", "aaa", "aaa", "aaa", 
                "aaa", "aaa", "aaa", "aaa", "aaa", "aaa", "aaa", "bbb", "bbb", 
                "bbb", "bbb", "bbb", "bbb", "bbb", "bbb", "bbb", "bbb", "bbb", 
                "bbb")),
  class = c("tbl_df", "tbl", "data.frame"),
  row.names = c(NA, 
                -24L),
  .Names = c("x", "count", "term"))
## have a look
aaa

## initial plot
p2 <- aaa %>% ggplot(aes(x = x, y = count, group = term, colour = term)) + geom_line()
## have a look
p2

## works
direct.label(p2)



## plot with theme
p2 <- aaa %>% ggplot(aes(x = x, y = count, group = term, colour = term)) + geom_line() + theme_fivethirtyeight()
## have a look
p2

## fails
direct.label(p2)
## Error in base::serialize(object, connection = NULL, ascii = ascii, version = serializeVersion) :
##   object 'direction' not found

[mohinbanker]

I also have this error and haven't been able to find a solution. Is there a way to fix it?

[tdhock]

hi thanks for the bug reports and the reproducible example. it is fixed in #25