From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Tue Feb  3 15:22:44 2004
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Tue Feb  3 15:23:02 2004
Subject: [Rd] close.screen (PR#6530)
In-Reply-To: <20040203130220.E11C4EDF2@slim.kubism.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402031418290.9643-100000@gannet.stats>

Since the argment of close.screen is supposed to be a single screen 
number, and

> scr
[1] 5 6

this appears to be user error, correctly detected.

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 schlather@cu.lu wrote:

> Full_Name: Martin Schlather
> Version: R.1.9.0 (2004-02-02)
> OS: Linux SuSe 9.0
> Submission from: (NULL) (193.168.1.228)
> 
> 
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> the sequence
> 
>   close.screen(close.screen())
>   split.screen(c(1,2))
>   scr <- split.screen(c(1,2))
>   screen(scr[2])  ## also for scr[1]
>   close.screen(scr)
> 
> causes the error
> 
>   Error in screen(temp, new = FALSE) : Invalid screen number
> 
> Up to R-1.8.1, a warning had appeared:
>   Warning message: 
>   no finite arguments to min; returning Inf 
> see also bug report #1878.
> 
> 
> Many thanks in advance for considering this problem.
> Martin
> 
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[Rd] close.screen (PR#6530)
Prof Brian Ripley