As `Writing R Extensions' points out, using traceback() is often very
informative. Here it gives
> traceback()
3: axis(2, adj = adj, cex = cex, font = font, las = las, lab = lab,
mgp = mgp, tcl = tcl)
2: hist.times(dts)
1: hist(dts)
and the problem is partial matching of 'lab' to 'labels'.
This is discussed on the help page for axis, and in fact passing 'lab' to
axis has never worked. Please report this to the package maintainer (as
advised in the posting guide), and as a fix edit hist.times to remove
', lab=lab'.
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Bojanowski, M.J. (Michal) wrote:
> Hello dear useRs and wizaRds,
>
> I encountered the following problem using the hist() method for the
> 'times' classes
> from package 'chron'. You should be able to recreate it using the code:
>
>
>
> library(chron)
>
> # pasted from chron help file (?chron)
> dts <- dates(c("02/27/92", "02/27/92", "01/14/92", "02/28/92",
> "02/01/92"))
> class(dts)
>
> hist(dts) # which yields:
>
> # Error in axis(side, at, labels, tick, line, pos, outer, font, lty,
> lwd, :
> # 'label' is supplied and not 'at'
> # In addition: Warning messages:
> # 1: "histo" is not a graphical parameter in: plot.window(xlim, ylim,
> log, asp, ...)
> # 2: "histo" is not a graphical parameter in: title(main, sub, xlab,
> ylab, line, outer, ...)
>
>
>
> The plot is produced, but there are no axes.
>
> As far as it goes for the warnings I looked in the sources and I think
> they are caused
> by hist.times() in package 'chron' which is calling the barplot() with
> the histo=TRUE,
> whereas neither barplot(), plot.window(), title() nor axis() seem to
> accept this argument.
>
> Am I doing something wrong or there is something not right with the
> hist.times method?
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Michal
>
>
>
>
>
> PS: I'm using R 2.3.1 on Windows XP and:
>
>
>
>> sessionInfo()
> Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] "methods" "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils"
> "datasets"
> [7] "base"
>
> other attached packages:
> chron
> "2.3-3"
>>
>
>
> library(help="chron")
>
> Package: chron
> Version: 2.3-3
> Date: 2006-05-09
> Author: S original by David James <dj at research.bell-labs.com>, R
> port by Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik at R-project.org>.
> Maintainer: Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik at R-project.org>
> Description: Chronological objects which can handle dates and times
> Title: Chronological objects which can handle dates and times
> Depends: R (>= 1.6.0)
> License: GPL
> Packaged: Fri May 12 09:31:49 2006; hornik
> Built: R 2.3.0; i386-pc-mingw32; 2006-05-13 12:21:51; windows
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ~,~`~,~`~,~`~,~`~,~`~,~`~,~`~,~`~,~
>
> Michal Bojanowski
> ICS / Utrecht University
> Heidelberglaan 2; 3584 CS Utrecht
> Room 1428
> m.j.bojanowski at fss.uu.nl
>
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