# Error using StatPlots

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-using-statplots/12500>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Created:** [July 19, 2018, 3:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-using-statplots/12500 "2018-07-19T15:37:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![muriloasouza](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/muriloasouza/32/4650_2.png) [@muriloasouza](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/muriloasouza)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 3:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-using-statplots/12500/1 "2018-07-19T15:37:27Z")

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Hello, there! I’m trying to use the StatPlots package to plot some grouped bar graphics using the  
`groupedbar` function. As can be seen in this picture that i got from their Github page.

![673f6c78-863d-11e6-9ee9-8ca104e5d2a3](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/9/d/9d7860abcc1b6b48acf8e68b7c3d2042e098daa7.png)

Basically, this is my code:

```julia
workspace()

using StatPlots

Dbefore = [0.2410; 4.6709; 4.7775; 4.9210; 4.9397; 5.0426; 5.0677; 5.2084; 5.2080; 4.7775; 5.8069; 6.3106; 6.3101; 7.5012; 7.9857;8.3787; 8.3786];
Dafter = [0.1192; 2.3108; 2.4009; 2.4932; 2.4922; 2.4441; 2.4702; 2.6176; 2.6173; 2.4009; 2.8985; 3.1818; 3.1925; 4.2242; 4.6714; 5.0027; 5.0027];

groupedbar([Dbefore Dafter], bar_position = :dodge, bar_width=0.7)

```

But i’m getting this error:

```julia
ERROR: LoadError: LoadError: MethodError: all(::Reexport.##2#6, ::Array{Any,1}) is ambiguous. Candidates:
  all(f, A::AbstractArray{#s18,N} where N where #s18>:LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMai
n.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.Missings.Missing) in LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.La
stMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.Missings at C:\Users\Muril\.julia\v0.6\Missings\src\Missings.jl:190
  all(f, A::AbstractArray{#s18,N} where N where #s18>:LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.Missings.Missing) in LastMain.LastMain.Last
Main.LastMain.LastMain.Missings at C:\Users\Muril\.julia\v0.6\Missings\src\Missings.jl:190
  all(f, A::AbstractArray{#s18,N} where N where #s18>:LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.Missings.Missing) in LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.Last
Main.Missings at C:\Users\Muril\.julia\v0.6\Missings\src\Missings.jl:190
  all(f, A::AbstractArray{#s18,N} where N where #s18>:LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.Missings.Missing) in LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.Missings at C
:\Users\Muril\.julia\v0.6\Missings\src\Missings.jl:190
  all(f, A::AbstractArray{#s18,N} where N where #s18>:LastMain.LastMain.Missings.Missing) in LastMain.LastMain.Missings at C:\Users\Muril\.jul
ia\v0.6\Missings\src\Missings.jl:190
  all(f, A::AbstractArray{#s18,N} where N where #s18>:LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMai
n.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.Missings.Missing) in LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.La
stMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.Missings
at C:\Users\Muril\.julia\v0.6\Missings\src\Missings.jl:190
Possible fix, define
  all(::Any, ::AbstractArray{#s18,N} where N where #s18>:Union{LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMai
n.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.Missings.Missing, LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastM
ain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.Missings.Missing, LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.Las
tMain.LastMain.Missings.Missing, LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.Missings.Missing, LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.Missings.Missing, LastMain.L
astMain.Missings.Missing})
Stacktrace:
 [1] include_from_node1(::String) at .\loading.jl:576
 [2] eval(::Module, ::Any) at .\boot.jl:235
 [3] _require(::Symbol) at .\loading.jl:490
 [4] require(::Symbol) at .\loading.jl:405
 [5] include_string(::String, ::String) at .\loading.jl:522
 [6] include_string(::Module, ::String, ::String) at C:\Users\Muril\.julia\v0.6\Compat\src\Compat.jl:88
 [7] (::LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain
.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMa
in.LastMain.LastMain.Atom.##112#116{String,String})() at C:\Users\Muril\.julia\v0.6\Atom\src\eval.jl:109
 [8] withpath(::LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.
LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMai
n.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.Atom.##112#116{String,String}, ::String) at C:\Users\Muril\.julia\v0.6\CodeTools\src\utils.jl:30
 [9] withpath(::Function, ::String) at C:\Users\Muril\.julia\v0.6\Atom\src\eval.jl:38
 [10] hideprompt(::LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMa
in.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.Last
Main.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.Atom.##111#115{String,String}) at C:\Users\Muril\.julia\v0.6\Atom\src\repl.jl:67
 [11] macro expansion at C:\Users\Muril\.julia\v0.6\Atom\src\eval.jl:106 [inlined]
 [12] (::LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMai
n.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastM
ain.LastMain.LastMain.Atom.##110#114{Dict{String,Any}})() at .\task.jl:80
while loading C:\Users\Muril\.julia\v0.6\StatPlots\src\StatPlots.jl, in expression starting on line 5
while loading C:\Users\Muril\AppData\Local\atom\app-1.28.0\Arquivos Feitos\dsadasdsa.jl, in expression starting on line 3

```

Any help fixing this would be trully apreciated!

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**Author:** ![piever](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/piever/32/1815_2.png) [@piever](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/piever)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 3:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-using-statplots/12500/2 "2018-07-19T15:43:56Z")

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The `workspace()` command is deprecated in latest Julia as it’s known to cause issues. I think it simply cannot be used in combination with StatPlots. The same code without `workspace()` should work. If you’re used to the `workspace()` command from other languages (say `close all; clear all` in matlab), I’m not too sure what is the recommended alternative in Julia.

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**Author:** ![muriloasouza](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/muriloasouza/32/4650_2.png) [@muriloasouza](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/muriloasouza)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2018, 11:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-using-statplots/12500/3 "2018-07-20T11:01:56Z")

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Yeah, i was using it because i came from Matlab… thats bad to hear.

Well, i tried without it, and got this error now:

```julia
ERROR: LoadError: MethodError: Cannot `convert` an object of type Type{Any} to an object of type Abs
tractFloat
This may have arisen from a call to the constructor AbstractFloat(...),
since type constructors fall back to convert methods.
Stacktrace:
 [1] _preprocess_barlike(::Dict{Symbol,Any}, ::Array{Float64,1}, ::Array{Any,1}) at C:\Users\Muril\.
julia\v0.6\Plots\src\recipes.jl:458
 [2] macro expansion at C:\Users\Muril\.julia\v0.6\Plots\src\recipes.jl:327 [inlined]
 [3] apply_recipe(::Dict{Symbol,Any}, ::Type{Val{:bar}}, ::Array{Float64,1}, ::Array{Any,1}, ::Void)
 at C:\Users\Muril\.julia\v0.6\RecipesBase\src\RecipesBase.jl:291
 [4] _process_seriesrecipe(::Plots.Plot{Plots.GRBackend}, ::Dict{Symbol,Any}) at C:\Users\Muril\.jul
ia\v0.6\Plots\src\pipeline.jl:406
 [5] _plot!(::Plots.Plot{Plots.GRBackend}, ::Dict{Symbol,Any}, ::Tuple{StatPlots.GroupedBar}) at C:\
Users\Muril\.julia\v0.6\Plots\src\plot.jl:235
 [6] (::RecipesBase.#kw##plot)(::Array{Any,1}, ::RecipesBase.#plot, ::StatPlots.GroupedBar) at .\<mi
ssing>:0
 [7] #groupedbar#76(::Array{Any,1}, ::Function, ::Array{Any,2}, ::Vararg{Array{Any,2},N} where N) at
 C:\Users\Muril\.julia\v0.6\RecipesBase\src\RecipesBase.jl:367
 [8] (::StatPlots.#kw##groupedbar)(::Array{Any,1}, ::StatPlots.#groupedbar, ::Array{Any,2}, ::Vararg
{Array{Any,2},N} where N) at .\<missing>:0
 [9] include_string(::String, ::String) at .\loading.jl:522
 [10] include_string(::Module, ::String, ::String) at C:\Users\Muril\.julia\v0.6\Compat\src\Compat.j
l:88
 [11] (::Atom.##112#116{String,String})() at C:\Users\Muril\.julia\v0.6\Atom\src\eval.jl:109
 [12] withpath(::Atom.##112#116{String,String}, ::String) at C:\Users\Muril\.julia\v0.6\CodeTools\sr
c\utils.jl:30
 [13] withpath(::Function, ::String) at C:\Users\Muril\.julia\v0.6\Atom\src\eval.jl:38
 [14] hideprompt(::Atom.##111#115{String,String}) at C:\Users\Muril\.julia\v0.6\Atom\src\repl.jl:67
 [15] macro expansion at C:\Users\Muril\.julia\v0.6\Atom\src\eval.jl:106 [inlined]
 [16] (::Atom.##110#114{Dict{String,Any}})() at .\task.jl:80
while loading C:\Users\Muril\AppData\Local\atom\app-1.28.0\Arquivos Feitos\dsadasdsa.jl, in expressi
on starting on line 195

```

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**Author:** ![piever](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/piever/32/1815_2.png) [@piever](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/piever)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2018, 11:23am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-using-statplots/12500/4 "2018-07-20T11:23:23Z")

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I’m unable to reproduce it. To clarify, if you start Julia and give the command:

```julia
using StatPlots

Dbefore = [0.2410; 4.6709; 4.7775; 4.9210; 4.9397; 5.0426; 5.0677; 5.2084; 5.2080; 4.7775; 5.8069; 6.3106; 6.3101; 7.5012; 7.9857;8.3787; 8.3786];
Dafter = [0.1192; 2.3108; 2.4009; 2.4932; 2.4922; 2.4441; 2.4702; 2.6176; 2.6173; 2.4009; 2.8985; 3.1818; 3.1925; 4.2242; 4.6714; 5.0027; 5.0027];

groupedbar([Dbefore Dafter], bar_position = :dodge, bar_width=0.7)

```

you get an error?

What’s your `Pkg.status()` ?

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**Post date:** [July 20, 2018, 11:44am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-using-statplots/12500/5 "2018-07-20T11:44:59Z")

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Actually, no. If i start Julia and just type that, it works. But when i run my code, it doesn’t.

Here the status:

```julia
julia> Pkg.status()
9 required packages:
 - AmplNLWriter 0.4.0
 - Atom 0.6.14
 - Clp 0.4.0
 - CoinOptServices 0.3.0
 - Combinatorics 0.6.0
 - Debug 0.1.6
 - JuMP 0.18.2
 - Plotly 0.1.1
 - StatPlots 0.7.2
97 additional packages:
 - ASTInterpreter2 0.1.1
 - AssetRegistry 0.0.1
 - AxisAlgorithms 0.2.0
 - BinDeps 0.8.8
 - BinaryProvider 0.3.2
 - Blink 0.6.2
 - BufferedStreams 0.4.0
 - Calculus 0.4.0
 - Cbc 0.3.2
 - CodeTools 0.5.0
 - Codecs 0.4.0
 - ColorTypes 0.6.7
 - Colors 0.8.2
 - CommonSubexpressions 0.1.0
 - Compat 0.69.0
 - Contour 0.4.0
 - DataStructures 0.8.3
 - DataValues 0.3.3
 - DebuggerFramework 0.1.2
 - DiffEqDiffTools 0.4.1
 - DiffResults 0.0.3
 - DiffRules 0.0.5
 - Distances 0.6.0
 - Distributions 0.15.0
 - DocSeeker 0.1.0
 - DocStringExtensions 0.4.4
 - DualNumbers 0.4.0
 - FixedPointNumbers 0.4.6
 - ForwardDiff 0.7.5
 - GR 0.31.0
 - Hiccup 0.1.1
 - HttpCommon 0.4.0
 - HttpParser 0.4.0
 - HttpServer 0.3.1
 - Interpolations 0.7.3
 - Ipopt 0.4.0
 - IterTools 0.2.1
 - IterableTables 0.7.1
 - IteratorInterfaceExtensions 0.0.2
 - JSON 0.17.2
 - Juno 0.4.1
 - KernelDensity 0.4.1
 - LNR 0.0.2
 - LaTeXStrings 1.0.0
 - Lazy 0.12.1
 - LibExpat 0.4.2
 - Libz 0.2.4
 - LightXML 0.6.0
 - LineSearches 6.0.2
 - MacroTools 0.4.2
 - MathOptInterface 0.4.1
 - MathProgBase 0.7.1
 - MbedTLS 0.5.11
 - Measures 0.2.0
 - Media 0.3.0
 - Missings 0.2.10
 - Mustache 0.3.3
 - Mux 0.3.0
 - NLSolversBase 6.1.1
 - NaNMath 0.3.1
 - NamedTuples 4.0.2
 - Nullables 0.0.5
 - Optim 0.15.1
 - PDMats 0.8.0
 - Parameters 0.9.0
 - Pidfile 1.0.0
 - PlotThemes 0.2.0
 - PlotUtils 0.4.4
 - PlotlyBase 0.1.2
 - PlotlyJS 0.10.2
 - Plots 0.17.2
 - Polynomials 0.3.2
 - PositiveFactorizations 0.1.0
 - QuadGK 0.2.1
 - Ratios 0.2.0
 - RecipesBase 0.3.1
 - Reexport 0.1.0
 - Requests 0.5.1
 - Requires 0.4.4
 - ReverseDiffSparse 0.8.1
 - Rmath 0.4.0
 - SHA 0.5.7
 - ShowItLikeYouBuildIt 0.2.0
 - Showoff 0.2.0
 - SortingAlgorithms 0.2.1
 - SpecialFunctions 0.6.0
 - StaticArrays 0.7.2
 - StatsBase 0.23.1
 - StatsFuns 0.6.0
 - StringDistances 0.2.1
 - TableTraits 0.2.0
 - TableTraitsUtils 0.1.3
 - Tokenize 0.4.2
 - URIParser 0.3.1
 - WebSockets 0.5.0
 - WinRPM 0.3.2
 - WoodburyMatrices 0.2.2

```

By the way, in the last error i posted here, it says it starts on the line 195. That line, is the last line of my code, wich is:

`groupedbar([Dbefore Dafter], bar_position = :dodge, bar_width=0.7)`

If i remove the `using StatPlots` and `groupedbar([Dbefore Dafter], bar_position = :dodge, bar_width=0.7)` commands, my code works fine. But when i add them, i get that error.

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**Author:** ![piever](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/piever/32/1815_2.png) [@piever](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/piever)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2018, 12:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-using-statplots/12500/6 "2018-07-20T12:42:45Z")

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I think what may be happening is that instead of `Vector{Float64}` you’re getting `Vector{Any}` inside your code (for `Dbefore` and `Dafter`). you could try:

```julia
groupedbar(convert(Array{Float64}, [Dbefore Dafter]), bar_position = :dodge, bar_width=0.7)

```

and see if that fixes it. If that’s the case I’d also recommend figuring it out why you got `Vector{Any}` in the first place. For performance reasons (and to be able to call functions from other packages), it’d be much better to work with `Vector{Float64}`.

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**Author:** ![muriloasouza](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/muriloasouza/32/4650_2.png) [@muriloasouza](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/muriloasouza)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-using-statplots/12500/7 "2018-07-20T13:00:09Z")

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Yes, that was the problem. My `Dbefore` was `Vector{Any}` while the `Dafter` was `Vector{Float64}`

Thanks for your help piever!

**EDIT:** So, i tried running my code again (after it worked once with that `convert` function as a parameter for the `groupedbar`), and i’m getting this error now:

```julia
ERROR: LoadError: UndefVarError: groupedbar not defined
Stacktrace:
 [1] include_string(::String, ::String) at .\loading.jl:522
 [2] include_string(::Module, ::String, ::String) at C:\Users\Muril\.julia\v0.6\Compat\src\Compat.jl
:88
 [3] (::LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.La
stMain.Atom.##112#116{String,String})() at C:\Users\Muril\.julia\v0.6\Atom\src\eval.jl:109
 [4] withpath(::LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.Las
tMain.LastMain.Atom.##112#116{String,String}, ::String) at C:\Users\Muril\.julia\v0.6\CodeTools\src\
utils.jl:30
 [5] withpath(::Function, ::String) at C:\Users\Muril\.julia\v0.6\Atom\src\eval.jl:38
 [6] hideprompt(::LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.L
astMain.LastMain.Atom.##111#115{String,String}) at C:\Users\Muril\.julia\v0.6\Atom\src\repl.jl:67
 [7] macro expansion at C:\Users\Muril\.julia\v0.6\Atom\src\eval.jl:106 [inlined]
 [8] (::LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.LastMain.La
stMain.Atom.##110#114{Dict{String,Any}})() at .\task.jl:80
while loading C:\Users\Muril\AppData\Local\atom\app-1.28.0\Arquivos Feitos\dsadasdsa.jl, in expressi
on starting on line 196

```

It says `groupedbar` is not defined. Really odd, since i got the `using StatPlots` at the start of my code…  
`

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**Author:** ![muriloasouza](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/muriloasouza/32/4650_2.png) [@muriloasouza](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/muriloasouza)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2018, 2:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/error-using-statplots/12500/8 "2018-07-23T14:20:43Z")

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Hello everyone!

Today i had to update some packages in Atom (`ink` to 0.9.0, `julia-client` to 0.7.0, and other i can’t recall now). After the update, i’m not getting more error when using the `workspace()` and `using StatPlots` commands. But when i run my code, my graphic doesn’t appear in the Plot Tab.