# Error in adding Plots Pkg

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-in-adding-plots-pkg/54053>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** plotting, windows, pkg\
**Created:** [January 27, 2021, 1:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-in-adding-plots-pkg/54053 "2021-01-27T13:03:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Mahnazi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mahnazi/32/21426_2.png) [@Mahnazi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Mahnazi)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 1:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-in-adding-plots-pkg/54053/1 "2021-01-27T13:03:11Z")

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**Plots**

**I have just started learning Julia.**  
**I am using Windows 10**  
**I have a problem installing the Plots package.**

julia\> Pkg.add(“Plots”)  
Updating registry at `C:\Users\HP\.julia\registries\General`  
Updating registry at `C:\Users\HP\.julia\registries\JuliaComputingRegistry`  
Resolving package versions…  
No Changes to `C:\Users\HP\.julia\environments\JuliaPro_v1.5.3-1\Project.toml`  
No Changes to `C:\Users\HP\.julia\environments\JuliaPro_v1.5.3-1\Manifest.toml`

**when i write using Plots**  
**i have this error**

[Info: Precompiling Plots [91a5bcdd-55d7-5caf-9e0b-520d859cae80]  
Your GR installation is incomplete. Rerun build step for GR package.  
ERROR: LoadError: LoadError: InitError: Evaluation into the closed module `GR` breaks incremental compilation because the side effects will not be permanent. This is likely due to some other module mutating `GR` with `eval` during precompilation - don’t do this.  
Stacktrace:  
[1] eval at .\boot.jl:331 [inlined]  
[2] **init** () at C:\Users\HP.julia\packages\GR\RlE5Y\src\GR.jl:274  
[3] \_include\_from\_serialized(::String, ::Array{Any,1}) at .\loading.jl:697  
[4] \_require\_search\_from\_serialized(::Base.PkgId, ::String) at .\loading.jl:782  
[5] \_require(::Base.PkgId) at .\loading.jl:1007  
[6] require(::Base.PkgId) at .\loading.jl:928  
[7] require(::Module, ::Symbol) at .\loading.jl:923  
[8] include(::Function, ::Module, ::String) at .\Base.jl:380  
[9] include at .\Base.jl:368 [inlined]  
[10] include(::String) at C:\Users\HP.julia\packages\Plots\lmp2A\src\Plots.jl:1  
[11] top-level scope at C:\Users\HP.julia\packages\Plots\lmp2A\src\Plots.jl:212  
[12] include(::Function, ::Module, ::String) at .\Base.jl:380  
[13] include(::Module, ::String) at .\Base.jl:368  
[14] top-level scope at none:2  
[15] eval at .\boot.jl:331 [inlined]  
[16] eval(::Expr) at .\client.jl:467  
[17] top-level scope at .\none:3  
during initialization of module GR  
in expression starting at C:\Users\HP.julia\packages\Plots\lmp2A\src\backends\gr.jl:6  
in expression starting at C:\Users\HP.julia\packages\Plots\lmp2A\src\Plots.jl:212

julia\>

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**Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 1:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-in-adding-plots-pkg/54053/2 "2021-01-27T13:54:01Z")

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> [@Mahnazi](#):
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> JuliaPro\_v1.5.3-1

Troubleshooting JuliaPro is always a bit of a hassle because seemingly very few regular Julia users in this community use this pre-bundled Julia version.  
The only advice I can give you is to install the current version of Julia directly from their website: [Download Julia](https://julialang.org/downloads/)  
With a bit of luck your problem will vanish afterwards.

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**Author:** ![woolstar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/woolstar/32/19992_2.png) [@woolstar](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/woolstar)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 2:12am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-in-adding-plots-pkg/54053/3 "2021-01-28T02:12:29Z")

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There seems to be a version fight going on right now between `DifferentialEquations` and `Plots`. Every day I have Plots downgraded from 1.10.2 to 1.6.8 and GR downgraded to 0.52.0, which among other things has an annoying scaling problem (drawing charts 10x too big). Every day I have to manually force Plots to upgrade again, which then downgrades a bunch of other packages. This has caused my builds to be disrupted as well. I was able to find directions of forcing the rebuild of GR:

```
ENV["GRDIR"]=""
Pkg.build("GR")

```

perhaps some variation of this will work for Plots as well.

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**Author:** ![Mahnazi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mahnazi/32/21426_2.png) [@Mahnazi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Mahnazi)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 11:10am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-in-adding-plots-pkg/54053/4 "2021-01-28T11:10:02Z")

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Thanks  
I have another question now!

using XLSX  
using Plots  
Data = XLSX.readxlsx(“VRPTW.xlsx”)  
Xd=Data[“C101!E3:E28”]  
Yd=Data[“C101!F3:F28”]

#Display the data  
scatter(Xd,Yd)

but  
Cannot convert Array{Any,2} to series data for plotting  
error(::String) at error.jl:33  
\_prepare\_series\_data(::Array{Any,2}) at series.jl:8  
\_series\_data\_vector(::Array{Any,2}, ::Dict{Symbol,Any}) at series.jl:27  
macro expansion at series.jl:144 [inlined]  
apply\_recipe(::AbstractDict{Symbol,Any}, ::Type{RecipesPipeline.SliceIt}, ::Any, ::Any, ::Any) at RecipesBase.jl:282  
\_process\_userrecipes!(::Any, ::Any, ::Any) at user\_recipe.jl:36  
recipe\_pipeline!(::Any, ::Any, ::Any) at RecipesPipeline.jl:70  
\_plot!(::Plots.Plot, ::Any, ::Any) at plot.jl:172  
plot(::Any, ::Vararg{Any,N} where N; kw::Any) at plot.jl:58  
(::RecipesBase.var"#plot##kw")(::NamedTuple{(:seriestype,),Tuple{Symbol}}, ::typeof(plot), ::Array{Any,2}, ::Array{Any,2}) at plot.jl:52  
scatter(::Any, ::Vararg{Any,N} where N; kw::Any) at RecipesBase.jl:403  
scatter(::Any, ::Vararg{Any,N} where N) at RecipesBase.jl:403  
top-level scope at VRPTW:19

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**Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 11:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-in-adding-plots-pkg/54053/5 "2021-01-28T11:17:55Z")

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Hello @Mahnazi and welcome. I always advice Windows users to use the Chocolatey package manager to install Julia

> **[Chocolatey - The package manager for Windows](https://chocolatey.org/)**
>
> Chocolatey is software management automation for Windows that wraps installers, executables, zips, and scripts into compiled packages. Chocolatey integrates w/SCCM, Puppet, Chef, etc. Chocolatey is trusted by businesses to manage software...

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**Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 12:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-in-adding-plots-pkg/54053/6 "2021-01-28T12:31:56Z")

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> [@Mahnazi](#):
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> Cannot convert Array{Any,2} to series data for plotting

This tells you exactly what the problem is.

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**Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 12:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-in-adding-plots-pkg/54053/7 "2021-01-28T12:32:56Z")

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what must I do?

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**Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 12:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-in-adding-plots-pkg/54053/8 "2021-01-28T12:49:28Z")

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[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61979936/cannot-convert-arrayany-2-to-series-data-for-plotting](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61979936/cannot-convert-arrayany-2-to-series-data-for-plotting)

A simple search for this error message led me to this page. Maybe it helps you?