Plotting with JuMP variables

Specific Domains Optimization (Mathematical)
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Hello,

Not sure if i should post this here or in the visualization domain… but how can i plot a bar graph that has JuMP variables and regular Julia variables?

For example, i’m trying to plot a bargraph, like this:

Using StatPlots

b = repeat(["Before","After"], inner = 4)
p1 = groupedbar([D3_before D3_after], group = b, xlabel = "B", ylabel = "DHT3 (%)", title = "Title 1", bar_position = :dodge, bar_width=0.7)
p2 = groupedbar([DI_before DI_after], group = b, xlabel = "B", ylabel = "DHTI (%)", title = "Title 2", bar_position = :dodge, bar_width=0.7)
plot(p1,p2)

Here D3_before and DI_before are the regular Julia variables (vectors). D3_after and DI_after are the JuMP variables (vectors) that i got after solving my optimization problem. I tried to run the code, but i got an error as expected:

ERROR: LoadError: MethodError: Cannot `convert` an object of type Type{JuMP.GenericAffExpr{Float64,J
uMP.Variable}} to an object of type AbstractFloat
This may have arisen from a call to the constructor AbstractFloat(...),
since type constructors fall back to convert methods.
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You can’t plot JuMP variables as they are. What you can do is plot the solution values of the JuMP variables.

So if x is your JuMP variable, call x_sol = JuMP.get_value(x) and then plot x_sol instead of x.

p.s. when posting questions like this, you should include a reproducible example. Take a read of:

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I understand, thank you!

edit: This is weird, for x i tried x_sol = JuMP.get_value(x) but i got the following error:

ERROR: LoadError: UndefVarError: get_value not defined

Then i tried the usual command i knew to get the value of a JuMP variable, x_sol = getvalue(x). The code ran fine, but it didn’t plot anything.

The only thing i see different here, is that the original Julia variable is a 4x1 Array{Float64,2}, while the new x_sol is Float64[4].