image() method for Matrix fails on empty matrices (?)

Reasonably easy to avoid, but maybe an edge case that should be
handled?  Haven't looked yet to see how easy it would be to fix ... Am I
missing something?
library(Matrix)
m <- Matrix(0,nrow=3,ncol=3)
m
3 x 3 sparse Matrix of class "dsCMatrix"

[1,] . . .
[2,] . . .
[3,] . . .
image(m)
Error in seq.default(zrng[1], zrng[2], length.out = cuts + 2) :
  'from' must be a finite number
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In min(xx, na.rm = TRUE) :
  no non-missing arguments to min; returning Inf
2: In min(x) : no non-missing arguments to min; returning Inf
3: In max(x) : no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf
4: In min(x) : no non-missing arguments to min; returning Inf
5: In max(x) : no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf

## now modify matrix
m[3,3] <- 1
image(m) ## works fine
## reset:
m[3,3] <- 0
image(m) ## fails again
Ben Bolker 
    on Sat, 18 Aug 2018 17:51:38 -0400 writes:
>  Reasonably easy to avoid, but maybe an edge case that
    > should be handled?  Haven't looked yet to see how easy it
    > would be to fix ... Am I missing something?

No, I don't think so.

"Of course", we would typically not encounter this case, as we
typically would not visualize triviality ...

but nevertheless an edge case bug that I will fix immediately
and hence it will soon be available in the development version of
Matrix from R-forge e.g., by

   install.packages("Matrix", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")

Thank you for the report, Ben!
Martin
library(Matrix)
m <- Matrix(0,nrow=3,ncol=3)
m
3 x 3 sparse Matrix of class "dsCMatrix"
[1,] . . .
[2,] . . .
[3,] . . .
image(m)
Error in seq.default(zrng[1], zrng[2], length.out = cuts + 2) :
  'from' must be a finite number
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In min(xx, na.rm = TRUE) :
  no non-missing arguments to min; returning Inf
2: In min(x) : no non-missing arguments to min; returning Inf
3: In max(x) : no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf
4: In min(x) : no non-missing arguments to min; returning Inf
5: In max(x) : no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf
## now modify matrix
m[3,3] <- 1
image(m) ## works fine
## reset:
m[3,3] <- 0
image(m) ## fails again

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