# Using StatPlots failing, today, after it worked, yesterday

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-statplots-failing-today-after-it-worked-yesterday/88623>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** question, packages, installation, update\
**Created:** [October 12, 2022, 2:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-statplots-failing-today-after-it-worked-yesterday/88623 "2022-10-12T14:21:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![fins](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fins/32/43444_2.png) [@fins](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fins)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 2:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-statplots-failing-today-after-it-worked-yesterday/88623/1 "2022-10-12T14:21:27Z")

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In an attempt to explore `@benchmark` - results, I tried using `StatPlots`, but ran into the following `Error`…

(the weird thing is, that I had `StatPlots` up and running, yesterday, already, but it fails, today).

```julia
julia> using StatPlots
 │ Package StatPlots not found, but a package named StatPlots is available from a registry. 
 │ Install package?
 │ (@v1.8) pkg> add StatPlots
 └ (y/n/o) [y]: y
   Resolving package versions...
ERROR: Unsatisfiable requirements detected for package StatPlots [60ddc479]:
 StatPlots [60ddc479] log:
 ├─possible versions are: 0.8.0-0.9.2 or uninstalled
 ├─restricted to versions * by an explicit requirement, leaving only versions 0.8.0-0.9.2
 └─restricted by julia compatibility requirements to versions: uninstalled — no versions left

```

…I don’t know, how the whole versioning works, as of yet - am **I** the one, restricting the requirements for versions in some setting?

julia- **version** :

```julia
julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.8.2
Commit 36034abf26 (2022-09-29 15:21 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
  CPU: 8 × AMD Ryzen 5 3550H with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-13.0.1 (ORCJIT, znver1)
  Threads: 8 on 8 virtual cores
Environment:
  JULIA_EDITOR = code

```

Also not sure, the Stacktrace is of any use…

```julia
Stacktrace:
  [1] propagate_constraints!(graph::Pkg.Resolve.Graph, sources::Set{Int64}; log_events::Bool)
    @ Pkg.Resolve C:\Users\rober\.julia\juliaup\julia-1.8.2+0.x64\share\julia\stdlib\v1.8\Pkg\src\Resolve\graphtype.jl:1072
  [2] propagate_constraints! (repeats 2 times)
    @ C:\Users\rober\.julia\juliaup\julia-1.8.2+0.x64\share\julia\stdlib\v1.8\Pkg\src\Resolve\graphtype.jl:1008 [inlined]
  [3] simplify_graph!(graph::Pkg.Resolve.Graph, sources::Set{Int64}; clean_graph::Bool)
    @ Pkg.Resolve C:\Users\rober\.julia\juliaup\julia-1.8.2+0.x64\share\julia\stdlib\v1.8\Pkg\src\Resolve\graphtype.jl:1533
  [4] simplify_graph! (repeats 2 times)
    @ C:\Users\rober\.julia\juliaup\julia-1.8.2+0.x64\share\julia\stdlib\v1.8\Pkg\src\Resolve\graphtype.jl:1532 [inlined]
  [5] resolve_versions!(env::Pkg.Types.EnvCache, registries::Vector{Pkg.Registry.RegistryInstance}, pkgs::Vector{Pkg.Types.PackageSpec}, julia_version::VersionNumber)
    @ Pkg.Operations C:\Users\rober\.julia\juliaup\julia-1.8.2+0.x64\share\julia\stdlib\v1.8\Pkg\src\Operations.jl:352
  [6] targeted_resolve(env::Pkg.Types.EnvCache, registries::Vector{Pkg.Registry.RegistryInstance}, pkgs::Vector{Pkg.Types.PackageSpec}, preserve::Pkg.Types.PreserveLevel, julia_version::VersionNumber)
    @ Pkg.Operations C:\Users\rober\.julia\juliaup\julia-1.8.2+0.x64\share\julia\stdlib\v1.8\Pkg\src\Operations.jl:1254
  [7] tiered_resolve(env::Pkg.Types.EnvCache, registries::Vector{Pkg.Registry.RegistryInstance}, pkgs::Vector{Pkg.Types.PackageSpec}, julia_version::VersionNumber)
    @ Pkg.Operations C:\Users\rober\.julia\juliaup\julia-1.8.2+0.x64\share\julia\stdlib\v1.8\Pkg\src\Operations.jl:1239
  [8] _resolve(io::Base.TTY, env::Pkg.Types.EnvCache, registries::Vector{Pkg.Registry.RegistryInstance}, pkgs::Vector{Pkg.Types.PackageSpec}, preserve::Pkg.Types.PreserveLevel, julia_version::VersionNumber)
    @ Pkg.Operations C:\Users\rober\.julia\juliaup\julia-1.8.2+0.x64\share\julia\stdlib\v1.8\Pkg\src\Operations.jl:1260
  [9] add(ctx::Pkg.Types.Context, pkgs::Vector{Pkg.Types.PackageSpec}, new_git::Set{Base.UUID}; preserve::Pkg.Types.PreserveLevel, platform::Base.BinaryPlatforms.Platform)
    @ Pkg.Operations C:\Users\rober\.julia\juliaup\julia-1.8.2+0.x64\share\julia\stdlib\v1.8\Pkg\src\Operations.jl:1276
 [10] add(ctx::Pkg.Types.Context, pkgs::Vector{Pkg.Types.PackageSpec}; preserve::Pkg.Types.PreserveLevel, platform::Base.BinaryPlatforms.Platform, kwargs::Base.Pairs{Symbol, Base.TTY, Tuple{Symbol}, NamedTuple{(:io,), Tuple{Base.TTY}}})
    @ Pkg.API C:\Users\rober\.julia\juliaup\julia-1.8.2+0.x64\share\julia\stdlib\v1.8\Pkg\src\API.jl:275
 [11] add(pkgs::Vector{Pkg.Types.PackageSpec}; io::Base.TTY, kwargs::Base.Pairs{Symbol, Union{}, Tuple{}, NamedTuple{(), Tuple{}}})
    @ Pkg.API C:\Users\rober\.julia\juliaup\julia-1.8.2+0.x64\share\julia\stdlib\v1.8\Pkg\src\API.jl:156
 [12] add(pkgs::Vector{Pkg.Types.PackageSpec})
    @ Pkg.API C:\Users\rober\.julia\juliaup\julia-1.8.2+0.x64\share\julia\stdlib\v1.8\Pkg\src\API.jl:145
 [13] #add#27
    @ C:\Users\rober\.julia\juliaup\julia-1.8.2+0.x64\share\julia\stdlib\v1.8\Pkg\src\API.jl:144 [inlined]
 [14] add
    @ C:\Users\rober\.julia\juliaup\julia-1.8.2+0.x64\share\julia\stdlib\v1.8\Pkg\src\API.jl:144 [inlined]
 [15] try_prompt_pkg_add(pkgs::Vector{Symbol})
    @ Pkg.REPLMode C:\Users\rober\.julia\juliaup\julia-1.8.2+0.x64\share\julia\stdlib\v1.8\Pkg\src\REPLMode\REPLMode.jl:717
 [16] #invokelatest#2
    @ .\essentials.jl:729 [inlined]
 [17] invokelatest
    @ .\essentials.jl:726 [inlined]
 [18] check_for_missing_packages_and_run_hooks(ast::Any)
    @ REPL C:\Users\rober\.julia\juliaup\julia-1.8.2+0.x64\share\julia\stdlib\v1.8\REPL\src\REPL.jl:176
 [19] eval_user_input(ast::Any, backend::REPL.REPLBackend)
    @ REPL C:\Users\rober\.julia\juliaup\julia-1.8.2+0.x64\share\julia\stdlib\v1.8\REPL\src\REPL.jl:146
 [20] repl_backend_loop(backend::REPL.REPLBackend)
    @ REPL C:\Users\rober\.julia\juliaup\julia-1.8.2+0.x64\share\julia\stdlib\v1.8\REPL\src\REPL.jl:247
 [21] start_repl_backend(backend::REPL.REPLBackend, consumer::Any)
    @ REPL C:\Users\rober\.julia\juliaup\julia-1.8.2+0.x64\share\julia\stdlib\v1.8\REPL\src\REPL.jl:232
 [22] run_repl(repl::REPL.AbstractREPL, consumer::Any; backend_on_current_task::Bool)
    @ REPL C:\Users\rober\.julia\juliaup\julia-1.8.2+0.x64\share\julia\stdlib\v1.8\REPL\src\REPL.jl:369
 [23] run_repl(repl::REPL.AbstractREPL, consumer::Any)
    @ REPL C:\Users\rober\.julia\juliaup\julia-1.8.2+0.x64\share\julia\stdlib\v1.8\REPL\src\REPL.jl:355
 [24] (::Base.var"#967#969"{Bool, Bool, Bool})(REPL::Module)
    @ Base .\client.jl:419
 [25] #invokelatest#2
    @ .\essentials.jl:729 [inlined]
 [26] invokelatest
    @ .\essentials.jl:726 [inlined]
 [27] run_main_repl(interactive::Bool, quiet::Bool, banner::Bool, history_file::Bool, color_set::Bool)
    @ Base .\client.jl:404
 [28] exec_options(opts::Base.JLOptions)
    @ Base .\client.jl:318
 [29] _start()
    @ Base .\client.jl:522

```

Note: In an attempt to fix stuff, I already ran `update`, which easily took some 5…10 Mins or so, but did _not_ fix the issue…

```julia
(@v1.8) pkg> update
    Updating registry at `C:\Users\rober\.julia\registries\General.toml`
   Installed OffsetArrays ─── v1.12.8
   Installed SentinelArrays ─ v1.3.16
   Installed OpenSSL_jll ──── v1.1.18+0
   Installed PlotThemes ───── v3.1.0
   Installed Tables ───────── v1.10.0
   Installed HTTP ─────────── v1.4.1
   Installed Distributions ── v0.25.76
   Installed GR ───────────── v0.69.5
  Downloaded artifact: OpenSSL
    Updating `C:\Users\rober\.julia\environments\v1.8\Project.toml`
  [31c24e10] ↑ Distributions v0.25.75 ⇒ v0.25.76
    Updating `C:\Users\rober\.julia\environments\v1.8\Manifest.toml`
  [31c24e10] ↑ Distributions v0.25.75 ⇒ v0.25.76
  [28b8d3ca] ↑ GR v0.69.4 ⇒ v0.69.5
  [cd3eb016] ↑ HTTP v1.4.0 ⇒ v1.4.1
  [6fe1bfb0] ↑ OffsetArrays v1.12.7 ⇒ v1.12.8
  [ccf2f8ad] ↑ PlotThemes v3.0.0 ⇒ v3.1.0
  [91c51154] ↑ SentinelArrays v1.3.15 ⇒ v1.3.16
  [bd369af6] ↑ Tables v1.9.0 ⇒ v1.10.0
  [458c3c95] ↑ OpenSSL_jll v1.1.17+0 ⇒ v1.1.18+0
Precompiling project...
  46 dependencies successfully precompiled in 487 seconds. 210 already precompiled.

```

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**Author:** ![digital\_carver](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/digital_carver/32/33818_2.png) [@digital\_carver](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/digital_carver)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 2:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-statplots-failing-today-after-it-worked-yesterday/88623/2 "2022-10-12T14:34:27Z")

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StatPlots is the old name of [StatsPlots.jl](https://github.com/JuliaPlots/StatsPlots.jl) (Stats instead of Stat), and isn’t compatible with modern versions of Julia.  
You most likely want to install StatsPlots instead.

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**Author:** ![dlakelan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/dlakelan/32/8491_2.png) [@dlakelan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dlakelan)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 2:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-statplots-failing-today-after-it-worked-yesterday/88623/3 "2022-10-12T14:39:58Z")

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Also, you really should create a directory for you project and then `Pkg.activate(...)` in that project. The dependencies will be tracked **for that project** and it’s a lot easier to keep dependencies in check when you have only 5-6 packages for a given project rather than say 30 all dumped into the global environment.

The global environment is best used only for core stuff you want in pretty much every context, like Revise, or OhMyREPL or Infiltrator or such tools.

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**Author:** ![fins](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fins/32/43444_2.png) [@fins](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fins)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 2:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-statplots-failing-today-after-it-worked-yesterday/88623/4 "2022-10-12T14:46:09Z")

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> StatPlots is the old name of [StatsPlots.jl](https://github.com/JuliaPlots/StatsPlots.jl) (Stats instead of Stat), and isn’t compatible with modern versions of Julia.  
> You most likely want to install StatsPlots instead.

Thx a bunch! So glad I asked - I could’ve likely spent 2d, before giving up, without resolving this, on my own. 😅

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**Author:** ![fins](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fins/32/43444_2.png) [@fins](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fins)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 3:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-statplots-failing-today-after-it-worked-yesterday/88623/5 "2022-10-12T15:02:16Z")

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> Also, you really should create a directory for you project and then `Pkg.activate(...)` in that project. The dependencies will be tracked **for that project** and it’s a lot easier to keep dependencies in check when you have only 5-6 packages for a given project rather than say 30 all dumped into the global environment.

> The global environment is best used only for core stuff you want in pretty much every context, like Revise, or OhMyREPL or Infiltrator or such tools.

Thx, I realize, I need to dig into the whole deal of organizing my project with files, directories and depenedencies (I only really have one “project”, though), but exploring all kinds of functionalities in julia is keeping me too busy, currently.

As a newcomer, there seems to be an abundance of options, revolving around the keywords of `install`, `using`, `add`, `activate`, `update`, `version-requirements` and possibly more, wrt. to packages… 🥴

As of yet, my setup is so random and chaotic, that it seems to be more efficient to keep working like this, for a while, until I run into problems and then “just” save my code, reset everything and start a cleaner setup from scratch, with some lessons learned (hopefully, meanwhile).  
Who knows - until then, I might have switched my ide, figured that installing julia from the microsoft-store was a bad idea and maybe I’m going to choose the LTS-release over the latest stable one…

…simply too much information, and uncertainty, atm, to be setting up anything **long-term**. 😅

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**Author:** ![dlakelan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/dlakelan/32/8491_2.png) [@dlakelan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dlakelan)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 3:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-statplots-failing-today-after-it-worked-yesterday/88623/6 "2022-10-12T15:05:18Z")

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I know how you feel, I was the same way for the first several months of using Julia. Eventually I had hundreds of packages in my global environment and they were all frozen in place because upgrading any one of them was incompatible with other ones etc…

Then I deleted my global environment entirely, and started from scratch. I never install basically ANYTHING in the global environment anymore… Here is what’s in my global environment:

```julia
dlakelan@tintin:~$ cat .julia/environments/v1.8/Project.toml 
[deps]
AbbreviatedStackTraces = "ac637c84-cc71-43bf-9c33-c1b4316be3d4"
PkgTemplates = "14b8a8f1-9102-5b29-a752-f990bacb7fe1"
Revise = "295af30f-e4ad-537b-8983-00126c2a3abe"

```

From then on things worked smoothly, with dependencies tracked on a per-project basis.

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**Author:** ![fins](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fins/32/43444_2.png) [@fins](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fins)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 3:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-statplots-failing-today-after-it-worked-yesterday/88623/7 "2022-10-12T15:48:48Z")

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> From then on things worked smoothly, with dependencies tracked on a per-project basis.

…this is the important re-assurance, I need, atm.  
I.e. _just_ knowing, that this stuff _can_ be handled cleanly and reliably, in jullia.  
I’ll be getting there, in time. 👍

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**Author:** ![cjdoris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cjdoris/32/213133_2.png) [@cjdoris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cjdoris)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 8:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-statplots-failing-today-after-it-worked-yesterday/88623/8 "2022-10-12T20:21:00Z")

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I wonder if it’s worth yanking all versions of StatPlots?