[Rd] Problem with example(medpolish) in R-devel

[Roger Peng]

I should say I originally encountered this when `make fullcheck' failed
while running the `eda' examples.  But the problem is gone today.

> version
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arch     i686                        
os       linux-gnu                   
system   i686, linux-gnu             
status   Under development (unstable)
major    1                           
minor    7.0                         
year     2003                        
month    03                          
day      10                          
language R                           

-roger
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On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:

> I've since thought of a possible explanation, but one that was changed on 
> Saturday so should be correct in yesterday's R-devel.
> 
> This is what happened when an S4-style method was sent on `print'.
> Did you do this in a vanilla session?
> 
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> > That's part of `make check', so you would expect it to run (and it does on
> > all my systems with the current version in the CVS).  I can only guess
> > that the snapshot you have has an inconsistency, although I can see no
> > relevant changes at about that time.
> > 
> > methods(plot) is not going to be very useful in these days of namespaces:
> > it only shows user-callable methods, and methods are often going to be
> > unexported but registered. (That's something we need to address in the
> > documentation, at least.)
> > 
> > On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Roger Peng wrote:
> > 
> > > Today's R-devel has a problem in `example(medpolish)'.  It appears that
> > > the `plot.medpolish' method is not available.  Here is the output and
> > > traceback() after starting `R --vanilla':
> > > 
> > > > library(eda)
> > > > example(medpolish)
> > > 
> > > mdplsh> deaths <- rbind(c(14, 15, 14), c(7, 4, 7), c(8, 2, 
> > >     10), c(15, 9, 10), c(0, 2, 0))
> > > 
> > > mdplsh> dimnames(deaths) <- list(c("1-24", "25-74", "75-199", 
> > >     "200++", "NA"), paste(1973:1975))
> > > 
> > > mdplsh> deaths
> > >        1973 1974 1975
> > > 1-24     14   15   14
> > > 25-74     7    4    7
> > > 75-199    8    2   10
> > > 200++    15    9   10
> > > NA        0    2    0
> > > 
> > > mdplsh> (med.d <- medpolish(deaths))
> > > 1 : 19 
> > > Final: 19 
> > > 
> > > Median Polish Results (Dataset: "deaths")
> > > 
> > > Overall: 8 
> > > 
> > > Row Effects:
> > >   1-24  25-74 75-199  200++     NA 
> > >      6     -1      0      2     -8 
> > > 
> > > Column Effects:
> > > 1973 1974 1975 
> > >    0   -1    0 
> > > 
> > > Residuals:
> > >        1973 1974 1975
> > > 1-24      0    2    0
> > > 25-74     0   -2    0
> > > 75-199    0   -5    2
> > > 200++     5    0    0
> > > NA        0    3    0
> > > 
> > > 
> > > mdplsh> plot(med.d)
> > > Error in plot.window(xlim, ylim, log, asp, ...) : 
> > >         need finite xlim values
> > > In addition: Warning messages: 
> > > 1: no finite arguments to min; returning Inf 
> > > 2: no finite arguments to max; returning -Inf 
> > > 3: no finite arguments to min; returning Inf 
> > > 4: no finite arguments to max; returning -Inf 
> > > > traceback()
> > > 7: plot.window(xlim, ylim, log, asp, ...)
> > > 6: plot.default(med.d)
> > > 5: plot(med.d)
> > > 4: eval.with.vis(expr, envir, enclos)
> > > 3: eval.with.vis(ei, envir)
> > > 2: source(zfile, local, echo = echo, prompt.echo = prompt.echo, 
> > >        verbose = verbose, max.deparse.length = 250)
> > > 1: example(medpolish)
> > > > methods(plot)
> > >  [1] "plot.POSIXct"        "plot.POSIXlt"        "plot.TukeyHSD"      
> > >  [4] "plot.data.frame"     "plot.default"        "plot.density"       
> > >  [7] "plot.design"         "plot.factor"         "plot.formula"       
> > > [10] "plot.function"       "plot.hclust"         "plot.histogram"     
> > > [13] "plot.isoreg"         "plot.lm"             "plot.mlm"           
> > > [16] "plot.mts"            "plot.new"            "plot.ppr"           
> > > [19] "plot.spec"           "plot.spec.coherency" "plot.spec.phase"    
> > > [22] "plot.table"          "plot.ts"             "plot.window"        
> > > [25] "plot.xy"            
> > > > 
> > > > version
> > >          _                           
> > > platform i686-pc-linux-gnu           
> > > arch     i686                        
> > > os       linux-gnu                   
> > > system   i686, linux-gnu             
> > > status   Under development (unstable)
> > > major    1                           
> > > minor    7.0                         
> > > year     2003                        
> > > month    03                          
> > > day      09                          
> > > language R                           
> > 
> > 
> 
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