[BioC] error with get(getOption("device")) in maanova with R 2.8.0

[Wolfgang Huber]

Rob Tempelman ha scritto:
> I downloaded the latest version of maanova (version 1.12.0) from bioconductor that is presumably designed to work with R 2.8.0.  However, upon using some of the functions (say gridcheck on the dataset kidney provided with the package), I get the following error message:
> 
>> data(kidney)
>> gridcheck(kidney.raw)
> 
> Error in get(getOption("device")) : invalid first argument
> 
> 
> It is my understanding that all of the get(getOption("device")) commands now need to be replaced by dev.new() in R 2.8.0.  If so, could this be done with this particular package?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rob Tempelman



Hi Rob,

just a guess, but you or the authors of maanova might find it 
instructive to check the R 2.8 release notes "CHANGES IN R VERSION 
2.8.0": http://cran.at.r-project.org/src/base/NEW


The 'factory-fresh' defaults for options("device") have been
	changed to refer to the devices as functions in the grDevices
	namespace and not as names.  This makes it more likely that
	the incorrect (since R 2.5.0) assumption in packages that
	get(getOption("device"))() will work will catch users of those
	packages.



Best wishes
      Wolfgang

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Wolfgang Huber, EMBL-EBI, http://www.ebi.ac.uk/huber