>From the posting guide:
For questions about unexpected behavior or a possible bug, you should,
at a minimum, copy and paste the output from sessionInfo() into your
message.
(This would have told us the rpart version number.)
When mentioning version numbers, always use the full version number,
e.g., `2.6.1', not just `2.6', and also mention the platform
(Windows2000, Linux, MacOS X, with their versions).
If the question relates to a contributed package , e.g., one downloaded
from CRAN, try contacting the package maintainer first.
(rpart is a contributed package: see library(help="rpart").)
And from the FAQ:
Bug reports on contributed packages should be sent first to the
package maintainer, and only submitted to the R-bugs repository by
package maintainers, mentioning the package in the subject line.
As the rpart maintainer I can tell you that this will be changed to use
dev.new() in the next release, but the current release (3.1-41) is over 6
months' old and predates development of 2.8.0.
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, apjaworski at mmm.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This happens in 2.8 and 2.9. I am posting this here because I am not sure
> if one should use bug.report for reporting bugs in unreleased versions.
>
> I was trying to run the example from the help page of plot.rpart. I got
>
>> library(rpart)
>> fit <- rpart(Price ~ Mileage + Type + Country, cu.summary)
>> plot(fit, compress=TRUE)
> Error in get(getOption("device")) : invalid first argument
>
> This also produces a blank graphics window. When I run the plot command
> again everything seems to work fine, so the error only occurs when the
> graphics window is not open.
>
> I use Windows XP SP2. I just compiled the newest RC of 2.8 (R version
> 2.8.0 RC (2008-10-14 r46714)). I ran "make fullcheck" on it and
> everything checked out fine.
>
> The same thing happens in 2.9 but it worked fine in 2.7.2.
>
> Andy
>
>
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