Error in .Call.graphics(C_palette2, .Call(C_palette2, NULL)) : invalid graphics state

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<-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))

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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