grid error: protection stack overflow
Hi
Felix Andrews wrote:
I have isolated an error that can be reproduced by the following code. The same thing happens in 2.8.0pat and 2.9.0dev. It looks like the try() code is ending up in the display list, or something?
The problem was that the *unsuccessful* downViewport() was ending up on the display list (which lead to an infinite loop on a display list replay, which produced the error). I have committed a fix to r-devel. Thanks for the report! Paul p.s. A side-bug that this investigation exposed is that using try() on graphics code can have the effect (when an error occurs) of turning off display list recording for the device. No solution in sight for that bug, so best to stay away from try() for now, as your follow up email suggested.
library(grid)
library(lattice)
xyplot(1:100 ~ 1:100)
test <- try(downViewport("pageAnnotationVp"), silent = TRUE)
downViewport(trellis.vpname("toplevel"))
pushViewport(viewport(name = "pageAnnotationVp", yscale = c(1, 0)))
upViewport(0)
## resize device to trigger a couple of redraws...
Error: protect(): protection stack overflow
Enter a frame number, or 0 to exit
1: no.children(<environment>)
2: ls(children, all.names = TRUE)
3: try(name)
4: tryCatch(expr, error = function(e) {
5: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
6: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1]])
7: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler)
sessionInfo()
R version 2.8.0 Patched (2008-11-10 r46884) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_Australia.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252 attached base packages: [1] grid stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] lattice_0.17-15
Dr Paul Murrell Department of Statistics The University of Auckland Private Bag 92019 Auckland New Zealand 64 9 3737599 x85392 paul at stat.auckland.ac.nz http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/