Plot function cause R to crash for no particular error message

[stucash]

I was commenting under another crash related issue but found out mine eventually was a different story.

I am running R 4.1 in MX linux 19.04, with the package version being 1.2.7.

I have attached the test data as well, which is 900 rows of stock daily OHLCV data.
spce.csv

fin.ci <- function(data, interv.date, period="other", extend=F, range=c(5,9)){

  from <- range[1]
  to <- range[2]
  
  if (identical(period, "daily")){
    start <- ymd(interv.date) - days(from)
    end <- ymd(interv.date) + days(to) 
    pre.interv <- ymd(interv.date) - days(1)
    pre.period <- c(start, ymd(pre.interv))
    post.period <- c(ymd(interv.date), end)
    dat.xts <- xts(data$close, order.by = ymd(data$date))
  }else{
    start <- ymd_hms(interv.date) - days(from)
    end <- ymd_hms(interv.date) + days(to) + hours(5) + minutes(59)
    pre.interv <- ymd_hms(interv.date) - days(1) + ifelse(extend, hours(6), hours(5))
    pre.period <- c(start, ymd_hms(pre.interv))
    post.period <- c(ymd_hms(interv.date), end)
    dat.xts <- xts(data$close, order.by = ymd_hms(data$date))
  }
  res <- CausalImpact(dat.xts, pre.period, post.period)
  summary(res)
  plot(res)
}

I can run through to summary(res). The output from summary(res):

Posterior inference {CausalImpact}

                         Average      Cumulative 
Actual                   25           200        
Prediction (s.d.)        17 (0.28)    133 (2.23) 
95% CI                   [16, 17]     [128, 137] 
                                                 
Absolute effect (s.d.)   8.4 (0.28)   67.2 (2.23)
95% CI                   [7.9, 9]     [63.1, 72] 
                                                 
Relative effect (s.d.)   51% (1.7%)   51% (1.7%) 
95% CI                   [48%, 54%]   [48%, 54%] 

Posterior tail-area probability p:   0.00102
Posterior prob. of a causal effect:  99.89837%

For more details, type: summary(impact, "report")

It seems the new pull request could fix it, but I thought it's probably better to still flag it up.

Thanks Team.

[alhauser]

Can you provide a function call that leads to the crash? I can't reproduce a crash.

Tested:

library(CausalImpact)

test_data <- read.table("spce.csv", sep = ",", header = TRUE)
fin.ci(dat, "2021-05-28", period = "daily")

This works.

Note that the function fin.ci() itself produces an error if period is different from "daily" because the variable extend (argument to ifelse()) is not defined.

[stucash]

Can you provide a function call that leads to the crash? I can't reproduce a crash.

Tested:

library(CausalImpact)

test_data <- read.table("spce.csv", sep = ",", header = TRUE)
fin.ci(dat, "2021-05-28", period = "daily")

This works.

Note that the function fin.ci() itself produces an error if period is different from "daily" because the variable extend (argument to ifelse()) is not defined.

I have edited the function sorry I thought extend was irrelevant; I added it back now in the function signature.

The call that led to crash was just that plot(res).

I am experiencing crash with ggplot2 now as well; my gut feeling is that I might have messed up some base R plotting libraries (which is highly unlikely though......)? I am not sure whether this is a valid issue for this package any more. If you guys can't reproduce it in any environment it should be a safe close.

[alhauser]

I have edited the function sorry I thought extend was irrelevant; I added it back now in the function signature.

Thanks.

The call that led to crash was just that plot(res).

I meant, what call of fun.ci() crashes? Which arguments do you have to provide to fun.ci() to cause the crash in plot(res) within that function?

I am experiencing crash with ggplot2 now as well; my gut feeling is that I might have messed up some base R plotting libraries (which is highly unlikely though......)? I am not sure whether this is a valid issue for this package any more. If you guys can't reproduce it in any environment it should be a safe close.

OK. Maybe try updating all packages to the latest version and see if the error persists.