I have two Pluto notebooks that are identical except for the line with imports. Yet the plot in the second one is consistently tiny.
Notebook with tiny plot
First like: using StatsPlots, Distributions, LoopVectorization, PlutoUI
Notebook with correct plot
First line: using StatsPlots#, Distributions, LoopVectorization, PlutoUI
My investigation
It turns out that the notebook with the tiny plot has different versions of packages that have to do with plotting. See diff of Pluto’s .jl
files.
For example:
Part of correct plot Manifest
[[deps.Cairo_jll]]
deps = ["Artifacts", "Bzip2_jll", "Fontconfig_jll", "FreeType2_jll", "Glib_jll", "JLLWrappers", "LZO_jll", "Libdl", "Pixman_jll", "Pkg", "Xorg_libXext_jll", "Xorg_libXrender_jll", "Zlib_jll", "libpng_jll"]
git-tree-sha1 = "e2f47f6d8337369411569fd45ae5753ca10394c6"
uuid = "83423d85-b0ee-5818-9007-b63ccbeb887a"
version = "1.16.0+6"
[[deps.FFMPEG_jll]]
deps = ["Artifacts", "Bzip2_jll", "FreeType2_jll", "FriBidi_jll", "JLLWrappers", "LAME_jll", "LibVPX_jll", "Libdl", "Ogg_jll", "OpenSSL_jll", "Opus_jll", "Pkg", "Zlib_jll", "libass_jll", "libfdk_aac_jll", "libvorbis_jll", "x264_jll", "x265_jll"]
git-tree-sha1 = "3cc57ad0a213808473eafef4845a74766242e05f"
uuid = "b22a6f82-2f65-5046-a5b2-351ab43fb4e5"
version = "4.3.1+4"
[[deps.Fontconfig_jll]]
deps = ["Artifacts", "Bzip2_jll", "Expat_jll", "FreeType2_jll", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl", "Libuuid_jll", "Pkg", "Zlib_jll"]
git-tree-sha1 = "35895cf184ceaab11fd778b4590144034a167a2f"
uuid = "a3f928ae-7b40-5064-980b-68af3947d34b"
version = "2.13.1+14"
[[deps.FreeType2_jll]]
deps = ["Artifacts", "Bzip2_jll", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl", "Pkg", "Zlib_jll"]
git-tree-sha1 = "cbd58c9deb1d304f5a245a0b7eb841a2560cfec6"
uuid = "d7e528f0-a631-5988-bf34-fe36492bcfd7"
version = "2.10.1+5"
[[deps.GR]]
deps = ["Base64", "DelimitedFiles", "GR_jll", "HTTP", "JSON", "Libdl", "LinearAlgebra", "Pkg", "Printf", "Random", "Serialization", "Sockets", "Test", "UUIDs"]
git-tree-sha1 = "182da592436e287758ded5be6e32c406de3a2e47"
uuid = "28b8d3ca-fb5f-59d9-8090-bfdbd6d07a71"
version = "0.58.1"
[[deps.GR_jll]]
deps = ["Artifacts", "Bzip2_jll", "Cairo_jll", "FFMPEG_jll", "Fontconfig_jll", "GLFW_jll", "JLLWrappers", "JpegTurbo_jll", "Libdl", "Libtiff_jll", "Pixman_jll", "Pkg", "Qt5Base_jll", "Zlib_jll", "libpng_jll"]
git-tree-sha1 = "d59e8320c2747553788e4fc42231489cc602fa50"
uuid = "d2c73de3-f751-5644-a686-071e5b155ba9"
version = "0.58.1+0"
Part of tiny plot Manifest
[[deps.Cairo_jll]]
deps = ["Artifacts", "Bzip2_jll", "Fontconfig_jll", "FreeType2_jll", "Glib_jll", "JLLWrappers", "LZO_jll", "Libdl", "Pixman_jll", "Pkg", "Xorg_libXext_jll", "Xorg_libXrender_jll", "Zlib_jll", "libpng_jll"]
git-tree-sha1 = "f2202b55d816427cd385a9a4f3ffb226bee80f99"
uuid = "83423d85-b0ee-5818-9007-b63ccbeb887a"
version = "1.16.1+0"
[[deps.FFMPEG_jll]]
deps = ["Artifacts", "Bzip2_jll", "FreeType2_jll", "FriBidi_jll", "JLLWrappers", "LAME_jll", "Libdl", "Ogg_jll", "OpenSSL_jll", "Opus_jll", "Pkg", "Zlib_jll", "libass_jll", "libfdk_aac_jll", "libvorbis_jll", "x264_jll", "x265_jll"]
git-tree-sha1 = "d8a578692e3077ac998b50c0217dfd67f21d1e5f"
uuid = "b22a6f82-2f65-5046-a5b2-351ab43fb4e5"
version = "4.4.0+0"
[[deps.Fontconfig_jll]]
deps = ["Artifacts", "Bzip2_jll", "Expat_jll", "FreeType2_jll", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl", "Libuuid_jll", "Pkg", "Zlib_jll"]
git-tree-sha1 = "21efd19106a55620a188615da6d3d06cd7f6ee03"
uuid = "a3f928ae-7b40-5064-980b-68af3947d34b"
version = "2.13.93+0"
[[deps.FreeType2_jll]]
deps = ["Artifacts", "Bzip2_jll", "JLLWrappers", "Libdl", "Pkg", "Zlib_jll"]
git-tree-sha1 = "87eb71354d8ec1a96d4a7636bd57a7347dde3ef9"
uuid = "d7e528f0-a631-5988-bf34-fe36492bcfd7"
version = "2.10.4+0"
[[deps.GR]]
deps = ["Base64", "DelimitedFiles", "HTTP", "JSON", "LinearAlgebra", "Printf", "Random", "Serialization", "Sockets", "Test", "UUIDs"]
git-tree-sha1 = "cd0f34bd097d4d5eb6bbe01778cf8a7ed35f29d9"
uuid = "28b8d3ca-fb5f-59d9-8090-bfdbd6d07a71"
version = "0.52.0"
Summary
The two files differ by their first line:
- Correct plot:
using StatsPlots#, Distributions, LoopVectorization, PlutoUI
- last three packages are commented out!
- Tiny plot:
using StatsPlots, Distributions, LoopVectorization, PlutoUI
The two files have different versions of packages installed:
Cairo_jll
- Correct plot: v1.16.0+6
- Tiny plot: v1.16.1+0
FFMPEG_jll
- Correct plot: v4.3.1+4
- Tiny plot: v4.4.0+0
Fontconfig_jll
- Correct plot: v2.13.1+14
- Tiny plot: v2.13.93+0
- …and so on
Question
What’s going on???! How did importing the other three packages influence the lower-level tooling? Importing StatsPlots
alone installed Cairo 1.16.0+6, but importing the other three packages suddenly upgraded Cairo to 1.16.1+0?!
Even worse, the upgraded versions produced the buggy tiny plot.
Is it possible to import the 4 packages together without… breaking plotting?
julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.7.0-beta3.0
Commit e76c9dad42 (2021-07-07 08:12 UTC)
Platform Info:
OS: macOS (x86_64-apple-darwin18.7.0)
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3330S CPU @ 2.70GHz
WORD_SIZE: 64
LIBM: libopenlibm
LLVM: libLLVM-12.0.0 (ORCJIT, ivybridge)