screen can't go back to (split) screen with log="y" plot (PR#831)

Hi.  Let's try to explain the subject line with some code:

split.screen (c(2,1))

[1] 1 2

screen(1)
plot (1:2, 1:2, log="y", main="1")
screen (2)
plot (1:2, 1:2, main="2")
screen (1)

Error in par(.split.screens[[n]]) : invalid value specified for graphics parameter "yaxp".

close.screen(all=TRUE)

Let's add comments:

split.screen (c(2,1))

[1] 1 2

OK, plot in the top half screen:

screen(1)
plot (1:2, 1:2, log="y", main="1")
par("yaxp")

[1]  1  2 -5

OK, switch to bottom half:

screen (2)
plot (1:2, 1:2, main="2")
par("yaxp")

[1] 1 2 5

OK, looks fine, let's go back up:

screen (1)

Error in par(.split.screens[[n]]) : invalid value specified for graphics parameter "yaxp".

Bummer.

close.screen(all=TRUE)

Somehow I'm hoping you'll tell me I'm doing something wrong, because
I'd really would like to be able to do the following:
  repeat {
    #calculate
    screen(1)
    #fancy plot
    screen (2)
    #even fancier plot ;-)
    if (user.bored()) break
  }
Which is roughly what I was doing when the error messages started
popping up.

Thanks,
  -tom

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