# Warning on Plots in Jupyter

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/warning-on-plots-in-jupyter/48836
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [October 22, 2020, 6:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/warning-on-plots-in-jupyter/48836 "2020-10-22T18:34:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![gideonsimpson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/gideonsimpson/32/1928_2.png) [@gideonsimpson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/gideonsimpson)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2020, 6:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/warning-on-plots-in-jupyter/48836/1 "2020-10-22T18:34:19Z")

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Not sure if this merits a bug report, but I recently started having the following warning pop up. It doesn’t seem to interfere with my ability to generate figures, and it does not show up in the REPL:

```julia
│ MethodError: no method matching joinpath(::Nothing)
│ Closest candidates are:
│ joinpath(!Matched::AbstractString) at path.jl:244
│ joinpath(!Matched::AbstractString, !Matched::AbstractString...) at path.jl:289
│ Stacktrace:
│ [1] stat(::Nothing) at ./stat.jl:109
│ [2] isfile(::Nothing) at ./stat.jl:311
│ [3] _init_ijulia_plotting() at /Users/gideonsimpson/.julia/packages/Plots/jIs2V/src/ijulia.jl:7
│ [4] top-level scope at /Users/gideonsimpson/.julia/packages/Plots/jIs2V/src/init.jl:75
│ [5] eval at ./boot.jl:331 [inlined]
│ [6] eval at /Users/gideonsimpson/.julia/packages/Plots/jIs2V/src/Plots.jl:1 [inlined]
│ [7] (::Plots.var"#277#310")() at /Users/gideonsimpson/.julia/packages/Requires/vyVBT/src/require.jl:97
│ [8] err(::Any, ::Module, ::String) at /Users/gideonsimpson/.julia/packages/Requires/vyVBT/src/require.jl:42
│ [9] (::Plots.var"#276#309")() at /Users/gideonsimpson/.julia/packages/Requires/vyVBT/src/require.jl:96
│ [10] withpath(::Any, ::String) at /Users/gideonsimpson/.julia/packages/Requires/vyVBT/src/require.jl:32
│ [11] (::Plots.var"#275#308")() at /Users/gideonsimpson/.julia/packages/Requires/vyVBT/src/require.jl:95
│ [12] listenpkg(::Any, ::Base.PkgId) at /Users/gideonsimpson/.julia/packages/Requires/vyVBT/src/require.jl:15
│ [13] macro expansion at /Users/gideonsimpson/.julia/packages/Requires/vyVBT/src/require.jl:93 [inlined]
│ [14] __init__ () at /Users/gideonsimpson/.julia/packages/Plots/jIs2V/src/init.jl:73
│ [15] _include_from_serialized(::String, ::Array{Any,1}) at ./loading.jl:697
│ [16] _require_search_from_serialized(::Base.PkgId, ::String) at ./loading.jl:782
│ [17] _require(::Base.PkgId) at ./loading.jl:1007
│ [18] require(::Base.PkgId) at ./loading.jl:928
│ [19] require(::Module, ::Symbol) at ./loading.jl:923
│ [20] include_string(::Function, ::Module, ::String, ::String) at ./loading.jl:1091
│ [21] execute_code(::String, ::String) at /Users/gideonsimpson/.julia/packages/IJulia/rWZ9e/src/execute_request.jl:27
│ [22] execute_request(::ZMQ.Socket, ::IJulia.Msg) at /Users/gideonsimpson/.julia/packages/IJulia/rWZ9e/src/execute_request.jl:86
│ [23] #invokelatest#1 at ./essentials.jl:710 [inlined]
│ [24] invokelatest at ./essentials.jl:709 [inlined]
│ [25] eventloop(::ZMQ.Socket) at /Users/gideonsimpson/.julia/packages/IJulia/rWZ9e/src/eventloop.jl:8
│ [26] (::IJulia.var"#15#18")() at ./task.jl:356
└ @ Requires /Users/gideonsimpson/.julia/packages/Requires/vyVBT/src/require.jl:44

```

This is with the most recent release of Plots.jl on Julia 1.5.2

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### Author: ![BeastyBlacksmith](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/beastyblacksmith/32/4741_2.png) [@BeastyBlacksmith](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/BeastyBlacksmith)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2020, 6:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/warning-on-plots-in-jupyter/48836/2 "2020-10-22T18:52:21Z")

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I thought this was fixed in [https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Plots.jl/pull/3087](https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Plots.jl/pull/3087), so as of v.1.7.1, are you on 1.7.1?

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### Author: ![gideonsimpson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/gideonsimpson/32/1928_2.png) [@gideonsimpson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/gideonsimpson)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2020, 6:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/warning-on-plots-in-jupyter/48836/3 "2020-10-22T18:58:31Z")

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Yes, I’m getting this in 1.7.1

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### Author: ![BeastyBlacksmith](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/beastyblacksmith/32/4741_2.png) [@BeastyBlacksmith](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/BeastyBlacksmith)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2020, 7:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/warning-on-plots-in-jupyter/48836/4 "2020-10-22T19:18:34Z")

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Should work in the upcoming release: [https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Plots.jl/pull/3090](https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Plots.jl/pull/3090)
