Persistent invalid graphics state error when using ggplot2

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I believe my dataframe is okay and my code is okay   In fact  I have eliminated parts of the dataframe and most of the graphing code to make things as basic as possible   But still  I get   Error in  Call graphics C palette2   Call C palette2  NULL        invalid graphics state   What is wrong here   Here is the data     date   trt var val 1 8 2008    cc  sw5 0 2684138 1 8 2008    cc  sw15    0 2897586 1 8 2008    cc  sw5 0 2822414 2 8 2008    cc  sw5 0 2494583 2 8 2008    cc  sw5 0 2692917 2 8 2008    cc  sw15    0 2619167 2 8 2008    cc  sw5 0 204375 3 8 2008    cc  sw5 0 2430625 3 8 2008    cc  sw5 0 2654375 3 8 2008    cc  sw5 0 2509583 3 8 2008    cc  sw5 0 2055625 1 8 2008    ccw sw15    0 2212414 1 8 2008    ccw sw5 0 3613448 1 8 2008    ccw sw5 0 2607586 2 8 2008    ccw sw5 0 2087917 2 8 2008    ccw sw15    0 3390417 2 8 2008    ccw sw5 0 2436458 2 8 2008    ccw sw5 0 290875 3 8 2008    ccw sw5 0 20175 3 8 2008    ccw sw15    0 328875 3 8 2008    ccw sw5 0 2328958 3 8 2008    ccw sw5 0 2868958   When I work with this data  I specify dates like this   df lt -df order as Date df date format   d  m  Y     drop FALSE    and here I want to make a scatterplot   ggplot data   df aes x   date y   val       geom point aes group   trt

User · Accepted Answer

I ran into this same error and solved it by running:

dev.off()

and then running the plot again. I think the graphics device was messed up earlier somehow by exporting some graphics and it didn't get reset. This worked for me and it's simpler than reinstalling ggplot2.

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You likely don t need to reinstall ggplot2  Solution  go back to plot that didn t work previously  Take the below console output for example  The figure margins  the window that displays your plots  were too small to display the pairs MinusInner  plot  Then when I tried to make the next qplot  R was still hung up on previous error       pairs MinusInner    Error in plot new     figure margins too large   qplot Sample Type  BAE data MinusInner  geom  boxplot     Error in  Call graphics C palette2   Call C palette2  NULL          invalid graphics state   I fixed the first error by expanding the plot window and rerunning the pairs MinusInner  plot  Then blam  it worked       pairs MinusInner    qplot Sample Type  BAE data MinusInner  geom  boxplot

User · Answer

The solution is to simply reinstall ggplot2  Maybe there is an incompatibility between the R version you are using  and your installed version of ggplot2  Alternatively  something might have gone wrong while installing ggplot2 earlier  causing the issue you see

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I solved this by clearing all the plots in the console and then making sure the plot area was large enough to accommodate what I was creating

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try to get out grafics with x11   or win graph   and solve this trouble

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I found this to occur when you mix ggplot charts with plot charts in the same session  Using the  dev off  solution suggested by Paul solves the issue

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