From maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch  Mon Dec  4 15:23:02 2006
From: maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch (maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch)
Date: Mon,  4 Dec 2006 15:23:02 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Rd] erroneous warning in hist (PR#9408)
Message-ID: <20061204142302.3B6165730D@slim.kubism.ku.dk>

>>>>> "AlexD" == oma be <alex.deckmyn>
>>>>>     on Mon,  4 Dec 2006 11:21:44 +0100 (CET) writes:

    AlexD> Full_Name: Alex Deckmyn Version: 2.4.0 OS: linux
    AlexD> Submission from: (NULL) (193.190.63.62)


    AlexD> specifying the "right" option in hist results in a
    AlexD> warning when plot=F. The option is taken into account
    AlexD> correctly, but a warning is issued anyway. When
    AlexD> plot=T there is no warning.

    >> hist(c(1,1.5),breaks=0:4)$counts
    AlexD> [1] 1 1 0 0
    >> hist(c(1,1.5),breaks=0:4,right=T)$counts
    AlexD> [1] 1 1 0 0
    >> hist(c(1,1.5),breaks=0:4,plot=F)$counts
    AlexD> [1] 1 1 0 0
    >> hist(c(1,1.5),breaks=0:4,right=T,plot=F)$counts
    AlexD> [1] 1 1 0 0 Warning message: argument 'right' is not
    AlexD> made use of in: hist.default(c(1, 1.5), breaks = 0:4,
    AlexD> right = T, plot = F)
    >> hist(c(1,1.5),breaks=0:4,right=F,plot=F)$counts
    AlexD> [1] 0 2 0 0 Warning message: argument 'right' is not
    AlexD> made use of in: hist.default(c(1, 1.5), breaks = 0:4,
    AlexD> right = F, plot = F)

You are right that this happens with R 2.4.0 
and you are right that this is a buglet.

However you are wrong reporting this as a bug, since it has
been fixed quite a while ago; and we would like you to try
things in R-patched or R-devel before reporting as bug;
If you cannot use such "cutting edge" versions of R,
then please just ``report'' such things  on R-devel (but not
R-bugs) or R-help.

All this has been in the R-FAQ for many years.

Regards,
Martin



[Rd] erroneous warning in hist (PR#9408)
maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch