[Rd] [R] error in plot(table(c('a','a')))

[R. Michael Weylandt]

Should I file an issue for this in the bug tracker?

Slighly rearranged discussion with reproducible example follows on below.

> Em 26-11-2012 21:39, R. Michael Weylandt escreveu:
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Ludo Pagie <l.pagie at nki.nl> wrote:
>>> tbl.char1 <- table(c('a','a'))
>>> tbl.char2 <- table(c('a','a','b'))
>>> tbl.int1 <- table(c(1,1))
>>>
>>> # error:
>>> plot(tbl.char1)
>>>
>>> # no errors:
>>> plot(tbl.char2)
>>> plot(tbl.int1)
>>>
>> Confirmed in current R-devel. It seems to arise from plot.table's use
>> of seq.int(x) when the dimnames of the table are not integers. I'm not
>> sure if this shouldn't be seq_along(x) instead, but I'm not sure I
>> totally follow the internal logic, so perhaps someone can offer second
>> opinion?

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Rui Barradas <ruipbarradas at sapo.pt> wrote:
>  I'd change "when the dimnames of the table are not integers "
> to not numeric as that's what the code for plot.table tests. And it
> seems to come from seq.int, since with table value
> of 2, seq.int produces a vector of length 2 but the table length is 1:
>
> seq_along seems to solve the matter.