I found some weird behaviour and reported it as
https://bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18604 and
https://github.com/yihui/knitr/issues/2297, but it turns out it was user
error.
The dev.off() function was behaving as documented, but it behaves in an
unexpected (by me) way, and that caused the "bugs".
The issue is that
dev.off()
doesn't always result in the previous graphics device being made
current. If there are two or more other open graphics devices, it won't
choose the previous one, it will choose the next one.
I'm letting people know because this might affect other people too. If
you use dev.off(), don't assume it restores the previous device!
Here's my little workaround alternative:
safe.dev.off <- function(which = dev.cur(), prev = dev.prev()) {
force(prev)
dev.off(which)
dev.set(prev)
}
Use it just like dev.off(), but it *will* restore the previous device.
Duncan Murdoch
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