Error in zero_range() when running ggrepel with Github version of ggplot2

[aliarsalankazmi]

I recently upgraded my R version to 3.2.3, and updated my packages. I then installed the Github version of ggplot2 and CRAN version of ggrepel.

The versions for the packages in use are:

ggplot2: 2.1.0.9000  
ggrepel: 0.5  
scales: 0.4.0

But after loading these packages, I cannot even run the example script provided for ggrepel:

library(ggrepel)  
p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg, label = rownames(mtcars)))
# Avoid overlaps by repelling text labels
p + geom_text_repel() 

Error in zero_range(from) : x must be length 1 or 2

The function zero_range() is from the scales package, but if I install ggplot2 from CRAN (version 2.1.0), ggrepel starts working as expected.
Updating or re-installing scales or ggrepel does not have any effect.

I remember that in my old version of R 3.1.3, I had installed ggplot2 from Github (to use subtitles and caption), and it worked fine there.

My session info is:

R version 3.2.3 (2015-12-10)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                           LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] ggrepel_0.5        ggplot2_2.1.0.9000

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] labeling_0.3     colorspace_1.2-6 scales_0.4.0     assertthat_0.1   lazyeval_0.2.0   plyr_1.8.4      
 [7] tools_3.2.3      gtable_0.2.0     tibble_1.2       Rcpp_0.12.7      grid_3.2.3       munsell_0.4.3

From my debugging, the error occurs at this function:

ggproto("LayerInstance", Layer, geom = geom, geom_params = geom_params, 
        stat = stat, stat_params = stat_params, data = data, 
        mapping = mapping, aes_params = aes_params, subset = subset, 
        position = position, inherit.aes = inherit.aes, show.legend = show.legend)

And within it at:

function (`_class` = NULL, `_inherit` = NULL, ...) 
{
    e <- new.env(parent = emptyenv())
    members <- list(...)
    if (length(members) != sum(nzchar(names(members)))) {
        stop("All members of a ggproto object must be named.")
    }
    if (length(members) > 0) {
        list2env(members, envir = e)
    }
    if (!is.null(`_inherit`)) {
        if (!is.ggproto(`_inherit`)) {
            stop("`_inherit` must be a ggproto object.")
        }
        e$super <- `_inherit`
        class(e) <- c(`_class`, class(`_inherit`))  ###### Here layeth the error, as I think
    }
    else {
        class(e) <- c(`_class`, "ggproto")
    }
    e
}

Unsure why only after I updated R did I start facing this problem?
(This question was cross-posted from Stackoverflow, after confirmation that a fellow R user too faced this problem).

[hadley]

@slowkow any ideas?

[slowkow]

Nothing comes to mind immediately, but I'll look at the code when I get a chance.

I might suggest trying the github master version of ggrepel, but my expectation is that this will not help.

[SamBuckberry]

@slowkow Installing the github master version of ggrepel corrected this issue for me