histogram error

[smartinsightsfromdata]

I am using Julia 1.7.1 on Ubuntu 20.04. I use jupyterlab.

I get an error every time I use histogram, as in:

using StatsPlots
myrandomvector = randn(100)
StatsPlots.histogram(myrandomvector)

This is the error message:

MethodError: no method matching floatrange(::Type{Float64}, ::Int64, ::Int64, ::Float64, ::Int64)
Closest candidates are:
  floatrange(::Type{T}, ::Integer, ::Integer, ::Integer, ::Integer) where T at ~/packages/julias/julia-1.7/share/julia/base/twiceprecision.jl:370
  floatrange(::AbstractFloat, ::AbstractFloat, ::Real, ::AbstractFloat) at ~/packages/julias/julia-1.7/share/julia/base/twiceprecision.jl:384

Stacktrace:
  [1] floatrange(a::Float64, st::Float64, len::Float64, divisor::Float64)
    @ Base ./twiceprecision.jl:392
  [2] histrange(lo::Float64, hi::Float64, n::Int64, closed::Symbol)
    @ StatsBase ~/.julia/packages/StatsBase/DU1bT/src/hist.jl:99
  [3] histrange(v::Vector{Float64}, n::Int64, closed::Symbol)
    @ StatsBase ~/.julia/packages/StatsBase/DU1bT/src/hist.jl:39
  [4] _hist_edge
    @ ~/.julia/packages/Plots/FKcum/src/recipes.jl:806 [inlined]
  [5] _hist_edge
    @ ~/.julia/packages/Plots/FKcum/src/recipes.jl:808 [inlined]
  [6] JuliaPlots/StatsPlots.jl#205
    @ ~/.julia/packages/Plots/FKcum/src/recipes.jl:822 [inlined]
  [7] map
    @ ./tuple.jl:221 [inlined]
  [8] _hist_edges
    @ ~/.julia/packages/Plots/FKcum/src/recipes.jl:822 [inlined]
  [9] _make_hist(vs::Tuple{Vector{Float64}}, binning::Symbol; normed::Bool, weights::Nothing)
    @ Plots ~/.julia/packages/Plots/FKcum/src/recipes.jl:841
 [10] macro expansion
    @ ~/.julia/packages/Plots/FKcum/src/recipes.jl:865 [inlined]
 [11] apply_recipe(plotattributes::AbstractDict{Symbol, Any}, #unused#::Type{Val{:barhist}}, x::Any, y::Any, z::Any)
    @ Plots ~/.julia/packages/RecipesBase/qpxEX/src/RecipesBase.jl:289
 [12] _process_seriesrecipe(plt::Any, plotattributes::Any)
    @ RecipesPipeline ~/.julia/packages/RecipesPipeline/bexlW/src/series_recipe.jl:50
 [13] _process_seriesrecipe(plt::Any, plotattributes::Any)
    @ RecipesPipeline ~/.julia/packages/RecipesPipeline/bexlW/src/series_recipe.jl:60
 [14] _process_seriesrecipes!(plt::Any, kw_list::Any)
    @ RecipesPipeline ~/.julia/packages/RecipesPipeline/bexlW/src/series_recipe.jl:27
 [15] recipe_pipeline!(plt::Any, plotattributes::Any, args::Any)
    @ RecipesPipeline ~/.julia/packages/RecipesPipeline/bexlW/src/RecipesPipeline.jl:97
 [16] _plot!(plt::Plots.Plot, plotattributes::Any, args::Any)
    @ Plots ~/.julia/packages/Plots/FKcum/src/plot.jl:172
 [17] plot(args::Any; kw::Base.Pairs{Symbol, V, Tuple{Vararg{Symbol, N}}, NamedTuple{names, T}} where {V, N, names, T<:Tuple{Vararg{Any, N}}})
    @ Plots ~/.julia/packages/Plots/FKcum/src/plot.jl:58
 [18] histogram(args::Any; kw::Base.Pairs{Symbol, V, Tuple{Vararg{Symbol, N}}, NamedTuple{names, T}} where {V, N, names, T<:Tuple{Vararg{Any, N}}})
    @ Plots ~/.julia/packages/RecipesBase/qpxEX/src/RecipesBase.jl:410
 [19] histogram(args::Any)
    @ Plots ~/.julia/packages/RecipesBase/qpxEX/src/RecipesBase.jl:410
 [20] top-level scope
    @ In[21]:2
 [21] eval
    @ ./boot.jl:373 [inlined]
 [22] include_string(mapexpr::typeof(REPL.softscope), mod::Module, code::String, filename::String)
    @ Base ./loading.jl:1196

The surprinsing thing is that StatsPlots.ea_histogram(myrandomvector) works!

[sethaxen]

histogram is defined in Plots.jl, while ea_histogram is defined here, so this doesn't appear to be a StatsPlots issue. Also, I was unable to replicate.

[smartinsightsfromdata]

@sethaxen Thank you for looking into this. I just tried with Julia 1.6.5 and all works.

But certainly there is a problem somewhere. In fact I know other have had problems. See here: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/methoderror-no-method-matching-floatrange-when-running-histogram-1-7-0-win-11-21h2-amd-5900hx/72679

[smartinsightsfromdata]

I think I found the cause of my problems. In the repo I downloaded from Julia Academy there were old Manifest / Project files that were creating errors.

I deleted them and now everything works.