Error building 'GR'

[pramod-dudhe]

I am trying to use Plots package in Jupyter notebook and because of the error in plotting (could not load library "libGR.dll", The specified module could not be found.), I tried the following:

ENV["GRDIR"]=""
using Pkg
Pkg.build("GR")

And I get the following error:

Building GR → C:\Users\Pramod\.julia\packages\GR\ZI5OE\deps\build.log
┌ Error: Error building GR:
│ ERROR: LoadError: UndefVarError: installed not defined
│ Stacktrace:
│ [1] top-level scope at C:\Users\Pramod.julia\packages\GR\ZI5OE\deps\build.jl:8
│ [2] include(::String) at .\client.jl:439
│ [3] top-level scope at none:5
│ in expression starting at C:\Users\Pramod.julia\packages\GR\ZI5OE\deps\build.jl:7
└ @ Pkg.Operations D:\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.4\Pkg\src\Operations.jl:892

I am getting the above error only when I am using Jupyter notebook and I don't face any issue when I am using Atom IDE for plotting using Plots package. Please help.

Thanks.

[asinghvi17]

This is an upstream issue in GR. @jheinen, Pkg.installed is deprecated in 1.4. https://github.com/jheinen/GR.jl/blob/master/deps/build.jl#L36 is where it seems to be used.

[jheinen]

Did you ] up GR?

[pramod-dudhe]

I have installed GR using Pkg.add("GR") in jupyter notebook and then using Pkg.build("GR").

[jheinen]

Unfortunately, I could not reproduce the problem. There must be some "old" GR installation lying around. I'd suggest to remove the GR directory under packages before ] add GR.

[pramod-dudhe]

The weird thing is: I am able to build GR in Atom or when I run the code from Juila, I am facing the issue when I try to use Jupyter notebook! And deleting GR and reinstalling it doesn't help either.

[jheinen]

So you are using a separate Julia distribution for Jupyter!?

[pramod-dudhe]

What do you mean? I didn't get that.

[jheinen]

You can check it by comparing Sys.BINDIR and/or versioninfo().

[pramod-dudhe]

I am getting the same output for all three - Atom, Julia console, and Jupyter
"C:\Users\Pramod\AppData\Local\Programs\Julia\Julia-1.4.0\bin".

If Jupyter doesn't work, I will use Atom IDE, I think it will suffice my purpose for now. Thanks for all the help!

[jheinen]

And using GR in Jupyter doesn't work?

[pramod-dudhe]

When I run the following:
using Plots
using GR
plot(randn(10))

I get the following error:

WARNING: both Plots and GR export "plot"; uses of it in module Main must be qualified
UndefVarError: plot not defined

Stacktrace:
[1] top-level scope at In[3]:1

[jheinen]

You can't use both GR and Plots at the same time. I just wanted to find out, whether you can import GR and plot something, e.g.:

using GR
plot(randn(10))

[pramod-dudhe]

When I use 'using GR', I get the following error:

┌ Info: Precompiling GR [28b8d3ca-fb5f-59d9-8090-bfdbd6d07a71]
└ @ Base loading.jl:1260
┌ Warning: Package GR does not have UUIDs in its dependencies:
│ - If you have GR checked out for development and have
│ added UUIDs 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 UUIDs into GR from project dependency, future warnings for GR are suppressed.

[jheinen]

Did you try ] resolve or ] add GR