Empty, unwanted Rplots.pdf

[carlislerainey]

In the past, ggsave() run non-interactively with Rscript in the terminal produced the empty, unwanted file Rplots.pdf. See the history here according to @jennybc and her previous issue #1326. It seems like the issue has reappeared in ggplot2 v3.0.0.

Here are two examples. The first block of code uses ggplot2 v2.2.1**, which doesn't produce Rplots.pdf when called with Rscript in the terminal. The second block uses ggplot2 v3.0.0 and it does create Rplots.pdf.

Note that the code below installs packages.

v2.2.1 doesn't produce Rplots.pdf

# v2.2.1-no-error.R
# WARNING: This code installs packages!

# install version 2.2.1
devtools::install_github("tidyverse/ggplot2@v2.2.1")

# load version 2.2.1
library(ggplot2)

# create and plot data
x <- y <- 1:5
p <- qplot(x, y)
ggsave(filename = "wanted-v2.2.1.png",
       plot = p, 
       height = 3, width = 3)

# check whether the unwanted file exists and remove it
file.exists("Rplots.pdf")
file.remove("Rplots.pdf")

v3.0.0 does produce Rplots.pdf

# v3.0.0-error.R
# WARNING: This code installs packages!

# install version 3.0.0
devtools::install_github("tidyverse/ggplot2@v3.0.0")

# load version 3.0.0 
library(ggplot2)

# create and plot data
x <- y <- 1:5
p <- qplot(x, y)
ggsave(filename = "wanted-v3.0.0.png",
       plot = p, 
       height = 3, width = 3)

# check whether the unwanted file exists and remove it
file.exists("Rplots.pdf")
file.remove("Rplots.pdf")

[hadley]

Probably related to #2363

[clauswilke]

Would you mind checking with devtools::install_github("clauswilke/ggplot2:issue-2363-ggsave")?

[carlislerainey]

@clauswilke's issue-2363-ggsave branch (d44b60f) fixes the problem.

---

For completeness, I'm getting an error with @clauswilke's suggested install command, though.

I used the following, which I think accomplishes what he wants.

devtools::install_github("clauswilke/ggplot2", 
                         ref = "d44b60fe9173cf6e3a135d0aaf392a1a277dbb46")

---

The working example with d44b60f is then:

# clauswilke-fix.R
# WARNING: This code installs packages!

# install clauswilke's version 
devtools::install_github("clauswilke/ggplot2", 
                         ref = "d44b60fe9173cf6e3a135d0aaf392a1a277dbb46")
# load clauswilke's version 
library(ggplot2)

# create and plot data
x <- y <- 1:5
p <- qplot(x, y)
ggsave(filename = "wanted-clauswilke.png",
       plot = p, 
       height = 3, width = 3)

# check whether the unwanted file exists and remove it
file.exists("Rplots.pdf")
file.remove("Rplots.pdf")

This doesn't create Rplots.pdf. Success!

[clauswilke]

Yes, apologies, should have been devtools::install_github("clauswilke/ggplot2@issue-2363-ggsave").

I'll close this as a duplicate of #2363. It seems that my PR fixes the problem.

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