R Studio crashes when using `geom_sf()` with `POLYGON` simple features

[jcvdav]

Hi all,

I found a problem when using geom_sf() when trying to plot POLYGON simple features: Rstudio crashes. The POLYGONs can be plotted with base plot() or mapview::mapview(), but not with geom_sf(). The problem only arrises in @el-rivera's computer, even though we have the same versions of R, R Studio, GDAL, PROJ...., ggplot2. The only difference is her Windows vs my MacOS platforms, which I am sure is not trivial. The code below reproduces parts that work and don't work.

## Load packages ---------------------------------------------------------------
library(tidyverse)
library(sf)

## Build data ------------------------------------------------------------------
# A tibble with raw coordinates
coords <- tribble(~"lon", ~"lat",
                  -1, -1,
                  -1, 1,
                  1, 1,
                  1, -1,
                  -1, -1)

# Build sf objects -------------------------------------------------------------
# Coordinates as points
pts <- st_as_sf(coords,
                coords = c("lon", "lat"),
                crs = 4326) |> 
  mutate(a = 1)

# Coordinates as a linestring
lns <- pts |> 
  group_by(a) |> 
  summarize(do_union = F) |> 
  st_cast("LINESTRING")

# Coordinates as a polygon
pol <- lns |> 
  st_cast("POLYGON")

# Now plot them ----------------------------------------------------------------
# Confirm that plotting with base plot works
par(mfrow = c(1, 3))
plot(pts, max.plot = 1, reset = F)
plot(lns, max.plot = 1, reset = F)
plot(pol)
# It does

# Now ggplot
# This works
ggplot() + 
  geom_sf(data = pts)
# It does

# This works
ggplot() + 
  geom_sf(data = lns)
# It does

# This doesn't work. RStudio crashed with a bomb
ggplot() + 
  geom_sf(data = pol)

# This works, p is created in the environment
p <- ggplot() + 
  geom_sf(data = pol)

# But exporting p crashes R studio and results in a corrupted test.png file of 0B
ggsave(plot = p, filename = "test.png")

@el-rivera has provided two screenshots with session info and system info below

[teunbrand]

Thanks for the report! I'm also on Windows (11 rather than 10), but my RStudio session doesn't crash when executing the script you've provided. It didn't matter in my case whether I was using the native windows png device, the cairo png device or ragg's png device; all worked on my end. All of this is to say: it is hard for me to reproduce the problem. If this can be reproduced on a different machine than Elise's, that'd be salient to know.