R help - Feb 2014 - ISwR Plotting Issue

I'm trying to replicate the linear regression plot on pages 112-113 in
Peter Dalgaard's "Introductory Statistics with R" and getting the
error that
"plot.new has not been called yet."

   A Web search on that error offered suggestions to run plot.new() or x11(),
but all those do is put up an empty plotting window. My code, and R's
responses, follow:
> library(ISwR)
Attaching package: ?ISwR?

The following object is masked from ?package:survival?:

     lung
> attach(thuesen)
> plot(blood.glucose,short.velocity)
> abline(lm(short.velocity ~ blood.glucose))
Error in int_abline(a = a, b = b, h = h, v = v, untf = untf, ...) :
   plot.new has not been called yet

  What have I missed here?

Rich

On Wed, 19 Feb 2014, Rich Shepard wrote:
> What have I missed here?
   Answer: keeping the plot window open when issuing the abline() command.

Rich

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> On Behalf Of Rich Shepard
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> Subject: [R] ISwR Plotting Issue
> 
>    I'm trying to replicate the linear regression plot on pages 112-113
in
> Peter Dalgaard's "Introductory Statistics with R" and getting
the error
> that
> "plot.new has not been called yet."
> 
>    A Web search on that error offered suggestions to run plot.new() or
> x11(),
> but all those do is put up an empty plotting window. My code, and R's
> responses, follow:
> 
> > library(ISwR)
> 
> Attaching package: ?ISwR?
> 
> The following object is masked from ?package:survival?:
> 
>      lung
> 
> > attach(thuesen)
> > plot(blood.glucose,short.velocity)
> > abline(lm(short.velocity ~ blood.glucose))
> Error in int_abline(a = a, b = b, h = h, v = v, untf = untf, ...) :
>    plot.new has not been called yet
> 
>   What have I missed here?
> 
> Rich
> 
Rich,

I loaded ISwR and ran your code (as cut-n-paste from your email) and got a plot
of the data with regression line without any error message.  What version of R
and ISwR are you running?  Have you tried closing R and starting a clean
session?

Since the example worked for me, there is not much else I can help with.


Dan

Daniel Nordlund
Bothell, WA USA