R devel - Feb 2008 - Probable bug in "An Introduction to R" (PR#10777)

Both the document and R itself are at 2.6.2 (2008-02-08). When I run in 
the Windows R console the command 

   lines(density(eruptions, bw=0.1))

found in ? 8.2, I get:

   Error in plot.xy(xy.coords(x, y), type = type, ...) : 
   plot.new has not been called yet

Regards,

Olivier Lefevre

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You can't just pick out lines and expect them to run on their own.  The 
context is

# make the bins smaller, make a plot of density
hist(eruptions, seq(1.6, 5.2, 0.2), prob=TRUE)
lines(density(eruptions, bw=0.1))
rug(eruptions) # show the actual data points

We do arrange to run the code from that manual to test every release.
And that block of lines does work.


On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, lefevrol at yahoo.com wrote:
> Both the document and R itself are at 2.6.2 (2008-02-08). When I run in
> the Windows R console the command
>
>   lines(density(eruptions, bw=0.1))
>
> found in ? 8.2, I get:
>
>   Error in plot.xy(xy.coords(x, y), type = type, ...) :
>   plot.new has not been called yet
>
> Regards,
>
> Olivier Lefevre
>
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