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The windows() screen device would sometimes fail to plot (visibly) points with ‘pch="."’. PR#14583
Shutting down the R session cleaned up the temporary directory before closing all graphics devices. On Windows this necessitated changing the working directory, so some devices (e.g. ‘tiff()’) could write files in the wrong directory if closed during shutdown. The order has been reversed.