partial argument match warning when using ggplot2 with plotly

[sowla]

Hi! I'm getting this warning every time I use ggplot2 with plotly (using either alone is fine), even when I use an example from the ggplotly help page:

But the warning isn't there when I make a reprex (see below).

When I googled the error, I saw there was a similar problem with ggsave, and fixing it involved changing the file argument to filename. I'm not sure if something similar is going on in plotly's dev_fun function or if there's something wrong on my side, so I thought I should ask here..

Thanks in advance!

Reprex:

library(ggplot2)
library(plotly, warn.conflicts = FALSE)
ggiris <- qplot(Petal.Width, Sepal.Length, data = iris, color = Species)
ggplotly(ggiris)

    sessioninfo::session_info()
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^{Created on 2019-03-02 by the reprex package (v0.2.1)}

[technocrat]

I can't reproduce the error. Our differences are that I'm on Mojave and 3.5.2, but first, it would be good to check

other attached packages:
[1] plotly_4.8.0  ggplot2_3.1.0

to see if that helps.

[sowla]

Thank you @technocrat! I removed and reinstalled the packages, but I'm still getting the same error..

Inspired by you, I also tried on another OS X El Capitan 10.11.6, with R version 3.4.1, plotly_4.8.0 and ggplot2_3.1.0, and couldn't reproduce the error either.. I'll try with some other computers tomorrow

[cderv]

This warning for partial matching is not an issue per-se. It doesn't mean something wrong with the installed.

By defaut, R accepts partial matching for attributes, arguments and selection with $ (x$something). There is some option in R you can activate to warn you when this happens : warnPartialMatchAttr, warnPartialMatchDollar and warnPartialMatchArgs. You'll find them in the list inside ?options

Can you check the result of getOption("warnPartialMatchArgs") in your session where you have the warning?
I think it could have been set to TRUE, meaning the option is activated and it will warn when there is partial matching happening.

The dev.fun function is either Cairo::Cairo, grDevices::png, grDevices::jpeg depending on the computer capabilities where it is run. (see code. If you look at these function, some are taking file argument, other filename. You could have the warning because dev.fun(file = ...) maybe be in fact a function that take filename =. (like grDevices::png(). So the reproducibility depends on the system and on the warning activattion or not.

[sowla]

Thank you so much @cderv! You’re absolutely right, my warnPartialMatchArgs was set to TRUE and that's why the reprex didn’t reproduce my warning! I also didn't know you can link to specific lines in a file on github like that!

For completeness, here's a reprex that reproduces my warning:

options(warnPartialMatchArgs = TRUE)
library(ggplot2)
library(plotly, warn.conflicts = FALSE)
ggplotly(ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg)) + geom_point())
#> Warning in dev_fun(file = tempfile(), width = width %||% 640, height =
#> height %||% : partial argument match of 'file' to 'filename'

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