Plots + GR backend in Atom

New to Julia
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I just switched from JuliaPro to Julia 0.7+Atom.
When i type ‘using Plots’ I get this message

Warning: Package GR does not have Atom in its dependencies:
│ - If you have GR checked out for development and have
│ added Atom as a dependency but haven’t updated your primary
│ environment’s manifest file, try Pkg.resolve().
│ - Otherwise you may need to report an issue with GR
└ Loading Atom into GR from project dependency, future warnings for GR are suppressed.

Then, if I try to plot, say, a vector, nothing appears except messages like:

Plot{Plots.GRBackend() n=1}

How can I fix this?

Just to add some detail: plot() works in a Julia Terminal

3

The display problem is fixed in GR master, but the warning is still there. As soon as I have fixed the warning message, I’ll tag a new GR version.

4

What is GR master? Meaning, is there a way I can use GR on Atom now? Thanks

5

You could use pkg> add GR#master to get the development version (also know as master branch) of GR.

6

I see. Is there any alternative to ‘Plots’ that is already working in Atom with Julia 0.7?

7

Plots is working, you just need the master branch of GR, or you can try one of the other back ends (I think PyPlot is working?). Some other plotting packages: gadfly, vegalite.jl, unicodeplots, though I’m not sure which are working on 1.0 (though most should be working on 0.7, with deprecation warnings)

8

Plots wraps different backends for the ploting, GR is just one of them. Try PyPlot. I didn’t check if it work though.

9

I didn’t really understand how and where to install GR#master, but PyPlot works once you follow the instructions here
https://github.com/JuliaPy/PyPlot.jl
before typing Pkg.add(“PyPlot”)

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