VSCode and ggplot (randomly) throw error "Error in UseMethod("depth")". about ggplot2 HOT 7 CLOSED

Thanks for the report! I'm not too familiar with how VSCode displays plots; do you have any idea what graphics device is used to display plots interactively?

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I'm not very familiar with the technical background, either. I know that you can use the httpgd-package to display plots in R (see also https://nx10.github.io/httpgd/articles/b01_vscode.html), and that's what I have installed, too.

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This remains a grid bug, not a ggplot2 bug. Sadly it has proven quite elusive to figure out why it happens but it has to do with some invalidation of the plot state in interactive devices

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Ok. I was just curious because I realized this error just recently, after the ggplot 3.5.0 release. This could be a coincidence, but my guess was some kind of interaction between grid and the latest ggplot might lead to this issue.

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It only seems to occur when the plot-window is not yet created. Once we have the plot-pane open, this error doesn't seem to re-appear.

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Here's a short video, not sure if this helps. But maybe this issue should be closed/transferred anyway?

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Thanks - I am going to close it since it is not something on the ggplot2 side. I know @pmur002 is aware of the issue so maybe this will eventually get fixed.

There can be many reasons why it started appearing with the latest release of ggplot2. I think the output from ggplot is by far the most complex grobs that gets rendered in R so it is a great stress-test of grid. Small changes may stress grid in new ways, even if ggplot2 is not doing anything wrong

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