I've since thought of a possible explanation, but one that was changed on Saturday so should be correct in yesterday's R-devel.
This is what happened when an S4-style method was sent on `print'. Did you do this in a vanilla session? On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That's part of `make check', so you would expect it to run (and it does on > all my systems with the current version in the CVS). I can only guess > that the snapshot you have has an inconsistency, although I can see no > relevant changes at about that time. > > methods(plot) is not going to be very useful in these days of namespaces: > it only shows user-callable methods, and methods are often going to be > unexported but registered. (That's something we need to address in the > documentation, at least.) > > On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Roger Peng wrote: > > > Today's R-devel has a problem in `example(medpolish)'. It appears that > > the `plot.medpolish' method is not available. Here is the output and > > traceback() after starting `R --vanilla': > > > > > library(eda) > > > example(medpolish) > > > > mdplsh> deaths <- rbind(c(14, 15, 14), c(7, 4, 7), c(8, 2, > > 10), c(15, 9, 10), c(0, 2, 0)) > > > > mdplsh> dimnames(deaths) <- list(c("1-24", "25-74", "75-199", > > "200++", "NA"), paste(1973:1975)) > > > > mdplsh> deaths > > 1973 1974 1975 > > 1-24 14 15 14 > > 25-74 7 4 7 > > 75-199 8 2 10 > > 200++ 15 9 10 > > NA 0 2 0 > > > > mdplsh> (med.d <- medpolish(deaths)) > > 1 : 19 > > Final: 19 > > > > Median Polish Results (Dataset: "deaths") > > > > Overall: 8 > > > > Row Effects: > > 1-24 25-74 75-199 200++ NA > > 6 -1 0 2 -8 > > > > Column Effects: > > 1973 1974 1975 > > 0 -1 0 > > > > Residuals: > > 1973 1974 1975 > > 1-24 0 2 0 > > 25-74 0 -2 0 > > 75-199 0 -5 2 > > 200++ 5 0 0 > > NA 0 3 0 > > > > > > mdplsh> plot(med.d) > > Error in plot.window(xlim, ylim, log, asp, ...) : > > need finite xlim values > > In addition: Warning messages: > > 1: no finite arguments to min; returning Inf > > 2: no finite arguments to max; returning -Inf > > 3: no finite arguments to min; returning Inf > > 4: no finite arguments to max; returning -Inf > > > traceback() > > 7: plot.window(xlim, ylim, log, asp, ...) > > 6: plot.default(med.d) > > 5: plot(med.d) > > 4: eval.with.vis(expr, envir, enclos) > > 3: eval.with.vis(ei, envir) > > 2: source(zfile, local, echo = echo, prompt.echo = prompt.echo, > > verbose = verbose, max.deparse.length = 250) > > 1: example(medpolish) > > > methods(plot) > > [1] "plot.POSIXct" "plot.POSIXlt" "plot.TukeyHSD" > > [4] "plot.data.frame" "plot.default" "plot.density" > > [7] "plot.design" "plot.factor" "plot.formula" > > [10] "plot.function" "plot.hclust" "plot.histogram" > > [13] "plot.isoreg" "plot.lm" "plot.mlm" > > [16] "plot.mts" "plot.new" "plot.ppr" > > [19] "plot.spec" "plot.spec.coherency" "plot.spec.phase" > > [22] "plot.table" "plot.ts" "plot.window" > > [25] "plot.xy" > > > > > > version > > _ > > platform i686-pc-linux-gnu > > arch i686 > > os linux-gnu > > system i686, linux-gnu > > status Under development (unstable) > > major 1 > > minor 7.0 > > year 2003 > > month 03 > > day 09 > > language R > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel