References

The main plot command. Use plot to create a new plot object, and plot! to add to an existing one:

    plot(args...; kw...)                  # creates a new plot window, and sets it to be the current
    plot!(args...; kw...)                 # adds to the `current`
    plot!(plotobj, args...; kw...)        # adds to the plot `plotobj`

There are lots of ways to pass in data, and lots of keyword arguments... just try it and it will likely work as expected. When you pass in matrices, it splits by columns. To see the list of available attributes, use the plotattr(attr) function, where attr is the symbol :Series, :Subplot, :Plot, or :Axis. Pass any attribute to plotattr as a String to look up its docstring, e.g., plotattr("seriestype").

bbox(x, y, w, h [,originargs...])
bbox(layout)

Create a bounding box for plotting

grid(args...; kw...)

Create a grid layout for subplots. args specify the dimensions, e.g. grid(3,2, widths = (0.6,0.4)) creates a grid with three rows and two columns of different width.

default(key) returns the current default value for that key.

default(key, value) sets the current default value for that key.

default(; kw...) will set the current default value for each key/value pair.

default(plotattributes, key) returns the key from plotattributes if it exists, otherwise default(key).

theme(s::Symbol)

Specify the colour theme for plots.

Allows temporary setting of backend and defaults for Plots. Settings apply only for the do block. Example:

with(:gr, size=(400,400), type=:histogram) do
  plot(rand(10))
  plot(rand(10))
end

arrow(args...)

Define arrowheads to apply to lines - args are style (:open or :closed), side (:head, :tail or :both), headlength and headwidth

return the centroid of a Shape

return the vertex points from a Shape or Segments object

font(args...)

Create a Font from a list of features. Values may be specified either as arguments (which are distinguished by type/value) or as keyword arguments.

Arguments

• family: AbstractString. "serif" or "sans-serif" or "monospace"
• pointsize: Integer. Size of font in points
• halign: Symbol. Horizontal alignment (:hcenter, :left, or :right)
• valign: Symbol. Vertical aligment (:vcenter, :top, or :bottom)
• rotation: Real. Angle of rotation for text in degrees (use a non-integer type)
• color: Colorant or Symbol

Examples

julia> font(8)
julia> font(family="serif", halign=:center, rotation=45.0)

create a shape by picking points around the unit circle. n is the number of point/sides, offset is the starting angle

create a star by weaving together points from an outer and inner circle. n is the number of arms

get an array of tuples of points on a circle with radius r

rotate an object in space

scale(shape, x, y = x, c = center(shape))
scale!(shape, x, y = x, c = center(shape))

Scale shape by a factor.

scalefontsizes(factor::Number)

Scales all current font sizes by factor. For example scalefontsizes(1.1) increases all current font sizes by 10%. To reset to initial sizes, use scalefontsizes()

scalefontsizes()

Resets font sizes to initial default values.

stroke(args...; alpha = nothing)

Define the properties of the stroke used in plotting lines

text(string, args...; kw...)

Create a PlotText object wrapping a string with font info, for plot annotations. args and kw are passed to font.

translate(shape, x, y = x)
translate!(shape, x, y = x)

Translate a Shape in space.

interleave 2 vectors into each other (like a zipper's teeth)

abline!([plot,] a, b; kwargs...)

Adds ax+b... straight line over the current plot, without changing the axis limits

annotate!(anns...)

Add annotations to an existing plot.

Arguments

• anns: An AbstractVector of tuples of the form (x,y,text). The text object can be a String, PlotText PlotText (created with text(args...)), or a tuple of arguments to text (e.g., ("Label", 8, :red, :top)).

Example

julia> plot(1:10)
julia> annotate!([(7,3,"(7,3)"),(3,7,text("hey", 14, :left, :top, :green))])
julia> annotate!([(4, 4, ("More text", 8, 45.0, :bottom, :red))])

areaplot([x,] y)
areaplot!([x,] y)

Draw a stacked area plot of the matrix y.

Examples

julia> areaplot(1:3, [1 2 3; 7 8 9; 4 5 6], seriescolor = [:red :green :blue], fillalpha = [0.2 0.3 0.4])

bar(x,y)
bar!(x,y)

Make a bar plot of y vs x.

Arguments

• bar_position: Symbol. Choose from :overlay (default), :stack. (warning: May not be implemented fully)
• bar_width: nothing or Number. Width of bars in data coordinates. When nothing, chooses based on x (or y when orientation = :h).
• bar_edges: Bool. Align bars to edges (true), or centers (the default)?
• orientation: Symbol. (deprecated) Horizontal or vertical orientation for bar types. Values :h, :hor, :horizontal correspond to horizontal (sideways, anchored to y-axis), and :v, :vert, and :vertical correspond to vertical (the default).

Examples

julia> bar([1,2,3],[4,5,6],fillcolor=[:red,:green,:blue],fillalpha=[0.2,0.4,0.6])
julia> bar([(1,4),(2,5),(3,6)])

bar(x,y)
bar!(x,y)

Make a bar plot of y vs x.

Arguments

• bar_position: Symbol. Choose from :overlay (default), :stack. (warning: May not be implemented fully)
• bar_width: nothing or Number. Width of bars in data coordinates. When nothing, chooses based on x (or y when orientation = :h).
• bar_edges: Bool. Align bars to edges (true), or centers (the default)?
• orientation: Symbol. (deprecated) Horizontal or vertical orientation for bar types. Values :h, :hor, :horizontal correspond to horizontal (sideways, anchored to y-axis), and :v, :vert, and :vertical correspond to vertical (the default).

Examples

julia> bar([1,2,3],[4,5,6],fillcolor=[:red,:green,:blue],fillalpha=[0.2,0.4,0.6])
julia> bar([(1,4),(2,5),(3,6)])

barhist(x)
barhist!(x)

Make a histogram bar plot. See histogram.

barhist(x)
barhist!(x)

Make a histogram bar plot. See histogram.

boxplot(x, y)
boxplot!(x, y)

Make a box and whisker plot.

Keyword arguments

• notch: Bool. Notch the box plot? (false)
• whisker_range: Real. Whiskers extend whisker_range*IQR below the first quartile and above the third quartile. Values outside this range are shown as outliers (1.5)
• outliers: Bool. Show outliers? (true)
• whisker_width: Real or Symbol. Length of whiskers; the options are :match to match the box width, :half, or a number to indicate the total length. (:half)

Example

julia> using StatsPlots
julia> boxplot(repeat([1,2,3],outer=100),randn(300))

boxplot(x, y)
boxplot!(x, y)

Make a box and whisker plot.

Keyword arguments

• notch: Bool. Notch the box plot? (false)
• whisker_range: Real. Whiskers extend whisker_range*IQR below the first quartile and above the third quartile. Values outside this range are shown as outliers (1.5)
• outliers: Bool. Show outliers? (true)
• whisker_width: Real or Symbol. Length of whiskers; the options are :match to match the box width, :half, or a number to indicate the total length. (:half)

Example

julia> using StatsPlots
julia> boxplot(repeat([1,2,3],outer=100),randn(300))

contour(x,y,z)
contour!(x,y,z)

Draw contour lines of the Surface z.

Arguments

• levels: Contour levels (if AbstractVector) or number of levels (if Integer)
• fill: Bool. Fill area between contours or draw contours only (false by default)

Example

julia> x = y = range(-20, stop = 20, length = 100)
julia> contour(x, y, (x, y) -> x^2 + y^2)

contour(x,y,z)
contour!(x,y,z)

Draw contour lines of the Surface z.

Arguments

• levels: Contour levels (if AbstractVector) or number of levels (if Integer)
• fill: Bool. Fill area between contours or draw contours only (false by default)

Example

julia> x = y = range(-20, stop = 20, length = 100)
julia> contour(x, y, (x, y) -> x^2 + y^2)

An alias for contour with fill = true.

An alias for contour with fill = true.

curves(x,y)
curves!(x,y)

Draw a Bezier curve from (x[1],y[1]) to (x[end],y[end]) with control points (x[2],y[2]), ..., (x[end-1],y[end]-1)

Example

julia> curves([1,2,3,4],[1,1,2,4])

curves(x,y)
curves!(x,y)

Draw a Bezier curve from (x[1],y[1]) to (x[end],y[end]) with control points (x[2],y[2]), ..., (x[end-1],y[end]-1)

Example

julia> curves([1,2,3,4],[1,1,2,4])

density(x)
density!(x)

Make a line plot of a kernel density estimate of x.

Arguments

• x: AbstractVector of samples for probability density estimation

Example

julia> using StatsPlots
julia> density(randn(100_000))

density(x)
density!(x)

Make a line plot of a kernel density estimate of x.

Arguments

• x: AbstractVector of samples for probability density estimation

Example

julia> using StatsPlots
julia> density(randn(100_000))

heatmap(x,y,z)
heatmap!(x,y,z)

Plot a heatmap of the rectangular array z.

Example

julia> heatmap(randn(10,10))

heatmap(x,y,z)
heatmap!(x,y,z)

Plot a heatmap of the rectangular array z.

Example

julia> heatmap(randn(10,10))

hexbin(x,y)
hexbin!(x,y)

Make a hexagonal binning plot (a histogram of the observations (x[i],y[i]) with hexagonal bins)

Example

julia> hexbin(randn(10_000), randn(10_000))

hexbin(x,y)
hexbin!(x,y)

Make a hexagonal binning plot (a histogram of the observations (x[i],y[i]) with hexagonal bins)

Example

julia> hexbin(randn(10_000), randn(10_000))

histogram(x)
histogram!(x)

Plot a histogram.

Arguments

• x: AbstractVector of values to be binned
• bins: Integer, NTuple{2,Integer}, AbstractVector or Symbol. Default is :auto (the Freedman-Diaconis rule). For histogram-types, defines the approximate number of bins to aim for, or the auto-binning algorithm to use (:sturges, :sqrt, :rice, :scott or :fd). For fine-grained control pass a Vector of break values, e.g. range(minimum(x), stop = maximum(x), length = 25)
• weights: Vector of weights for the values in x, for weighted bin counts
• normalize: Bool or Symbol. Histogram normalization mode. Possible values are: false/:none (no normalization, default), true/:pdf (normalize to a discrete Probability Density Function, where the total area of the bins is 1), :probability (bin heights sum to 1) and :density (the area of each bin, rather than the height, is equal to the counts - useful for uneven bin sizes).
• bar_position: Symbol. Choose from :overlay (default), :stack. (warning: May not be implemented fully)
• bar_width: nothing or Number. Width of bars in data coordinates. When nothing, chooses based on x (or y when orientation = :h).
• bar_edges: Bool. Align bars to edges (true), or centers (the default)?
• orientation: Symbol. (deprecated) Horizontal or vertical orientation for bar types. Values :h, :hor, :horizontal correspond to horizontal (sideways, anchored to y-axis), and :v, :vert, and :vertical correspond to vertical (the default).

Example

julia> histogram([1,2,1,1,4,3,8],bins=0:8)
julia> histogram([1,2,1,1,4,3,8],bins=0:8,weights=weights([4,7,3,9,12,2,6]))

histogram(x)
histogram!(x)

Plot a histogram.

Arguments

• x: AbstractVector of values to be binned
• bins: Integer, NTuple{2,Integer}, AbstractVector or Symbol. Default is :auto (the Freedman-Diaconis rule). For histogram-types, defines the approximate number of bins to aim for, or the auto-binning algorithm to use (:sturges, :sqrt, :rice, :scott or :fd). For fine-grained control pass a Vector of break values, e.g. range(minimum(x), stop = maximum(x), length = 25)
• weights: Vector of weights for the values in x, for weighted bin counts
• normalize: Bool or Symbol. Histogram normalization mode. Possible values are: false/:none (no normalization, default), true/:pdf (normalize to a discrete Probability Density Function, where the total area of the bins is 1), :probability (bin heights sum to 1) and :density (the area of each bin, rather than the height, is equal to the counts - useful for uneven bin sizes).
• bar_position: Symbol. Choose from :overlay (default), :stack. (warning: May not be implemented fully)
• bar_width: nothing or Number. Width of bars in data coordinates. When nothing, chooses based on x (or y when orientation = :h).
• bar_edges: Bool. Align bars to edges (true), or centers (the default)?
• orientation: Symbol. (deprecated) Horizontal or vertical orientation for bar types. Values :h, :hor, :horizontal correspond to horizontal (sideways, anchored to y-axis), and :v, :vert, and :vertical correspond to vertical (the default).

Example

julia> histogram([1,2,1,1,4,3,8],bins=0:8)
julia> histogram([1,2,1,1,4,3,8],bins=0:8,weights=weights([4,7,3,9,12,2,6]))

histogram2d(x,y)
histogram2d!(x,y)

Plot a two-dimensional histogram.

Arguments

• bins: Number of bins (if an Integer) or bin edges (if an AbtractVector)
• weights: Vector of weights for the values in x. Each entry of x contributes its weight to the height of its bin.

Example

julia> histogram2d(randn(10_000),randn(10_000))

histogram2d(x,y)
histogram2d!(x,y)

Plot a two-dimensional histogram.

Arguments

• bins: Number of bins (if an Integer) or bin edges (if an AbtractVector)
• weights: Vector of weights for the values in x. Each entry of x contributes its weight to the height of its bin.

Example

julia> histogram2d(randn(10_000),randn(10_000))

hline(y)
hline!(y)

Draw horizontal lines at positions specified by the values in the AbstractVector y

Example

julia> hline([-1,0,2])

hline(y)
hline!(y)

Draw horizontal lines at positions specified by the values in the AbstractVector y

Example

julia> hline([-1,0,2])

hspan(y)

Draw a rectangle between the horizontal line at position y[1] and the horizontal line at position y[2]. If length(y) ≥ 4, then further rectangles are drawn between y[3] and y[4], y[5] and y[6], and so on. If length(y) is odd, then the last entry of y is ignored.

Example

julia> hspan(1:6)

hspan(y)

Draw a rectangle between the horizontal line at position y[1] and the horizontal line at position y[2]. If length(y) ≥ 4, then further rectangles are drawn between y[3] and y[4], y[5] and y[6], and so on. If length(y) is odd, then the last entry of y is ignored.

Example

julia> hspan(1:6)

lens!([plot,] x, y, inset = (sp_index, bbox(x1, x2, y1, y2)))

Magnify a region of a plot given by x and y. sp_index is the index of the subplot and x1, x2, y1 and y2 should be between 0 and 1.

mesh3d(x,y,z)
mesh3d(x,y,z; connections)

Plot a 3d mesh. On Plotly the triangles can be specified using the connections argument.

Example

x=[0, 1, 2, 0]
y=[0, 0, 1, 2]
z=[0, 2, 0, 1]

i=[0, 0, 0, 1]
j=[1, 2, 3, 2]
k=[2, 3, 1, 3]

plot(x,y,z,seriestype=:mesh3d;connections=(i,j,k))

mesh3d(x,y,z)
mesh3d(x,y,z; connections)

Plot a 3d mesh. On Plotly the triangles can be specified using the connections argument.

Example

x=[0, 1, 2, 0]
y=[0, 0, 1, 2]
z=[0, 2, 0, 1]

i=[0, 0, 0, 1]
j=[1, 2, 3, 2]
k=[2, 3, 1, 3]

plot(x,y,z,seriestype=:mesh3d;connections=(i,j,k))

ohlc(x,y::Vector{OHLC})
ohlc!(x,y::Vector{OHLC})

Make open-high-low-close plot. Each entry of y is represented by a vertical segment extending from the low value to the high value, with short horizontal segments on the left and right indicating the open and close values, respectively.

Example

julia> meanprices = cumsum(randn(100))
julia> y = OHLC[(p+rand(),p+1,p-1,p+rand()) for p in meanprices]
julia> ohlc(y)

ohlc(x,y::Vector{OHLC})
ohlc!(x,y::Vector{OHLC})

Make open-high-low-close plot. Each entry of y is represented by a vertical segment extending from the low value to the high value, with short horizontal segments on the left and right indicating the open and close values, respectively.

Example

julia> meanprices = cumsum(randn(100))
julia> y = OHLC[(p+rand(),p+1,p-1,p+rand()) for p in meanprices]
julia> ohlc(y)

path3d(x,y,z)
path3d!(x,y,z)

Plot a 3D path from (x[1],y[1],z[1]) to (x[2],y[2],z[2]), ..., to (x[end],y[end],z[end]).

Example

julia> path3d([0,1,2,3],[0,1,4,9],[0,1,8,27])

path3d(x,y,z)
path3d!(x,y,z)

Plot a 3D path from (x[1],y[1],z[1]) to (x[2],y[2],z[2]), ..., to (x[end],y[end],z[end]).

Example

julia> path3d([0,1,2,3],[0,1,4,9],[0,1,8,27])

Plot a pie diagram

Plot a pie diagram

Plot with seriestype :path3d

quiver(x,y,quiver=(u,v))
quiver!(x,y,quiver=(u,v))

Make a quiver (vector field) plot. The ith vector extends from (x[i],y[i]) to (x[i] + u[i], y[i] + v[i]).

Example

julia> quiver([1,2,3],[3,2,1],quiver=([1,1,1],[1,2,3]))

quiver(x,y,quiver=(u,v))
quiver!(x,y,quiver=(u,v))

Make a quiver (vector field) plot. The ith vector extends from (x[i],y[i]) to (x[i] + u[i], y[i] + v[i]).

Example

julia> quiver([1,2,3],[3,2,1],quiver=([1,1,1],[1,2,3]))

scatter(x,y)
scatter!(x,y)

Make a scatter plot of y vs x.

Examples

julia> scatter([1,2,3],[4,5,6],markersize=[3,4,5],markercolor=[:red,:green,:blue])
julia> scatter([(1,4),(2,5),(3,6)])

scatter(x,y)
scatter!(x,y)

Make a scatter plot of y vs x.

Examples

julia> scatter([1,2,3],[4,5,6],markersize=[3,4,5],markercolor=[:red,:green,:blue])
julia> scatter([(1,4),(2,5),(3,6)])

scatter3d(x,y,z)
scatter3d!(x,y,z)

Make a 3D scatter plot.

Example

julia> scatter3d([0,1,2,3],[0,1,4,9],[0,1,8,27])

scatter3d(x,y,z)
scatter3d!(x,y,z)

Make a 3D scatter plot.

Example

julia> scatter3d([0,1,2,3],[0,1,4,9],[0,1,8,27])

scatterhist(x)
scatterhist!(x)

Make a histogram scatter plot (bin counts are represented using points instead of bars). See histogram.

scatterhist(x)
scatterhist!(x)

Make a histogram scatter plot (bin counts are represented using points instead of bars). See histogram.

stephist(x)
stephist!(x)

Make a histogram step plot (bin counts are represented using horizontal lines instead of bars). See histogram.

stephist(x)
stephist!(x)

Make a histogram step plot (bin counts are represented using horizontal lines instead of bars). See histogram.

sticks(x,y)
sticks!(x,y)

Draw a stick plot of y vs x.

Example

julia> sticks(1:10)

sticks(x,y)
sticks!(x,y)

Draw a stick plot of y vs x.

Example

julia> sticks(1:10)

surface(x,y,z)
surface!(x,y,z)

Draw a 3D surface plot.

Example

julia> using LinearAlgebra
julia> x = y = range(-3, stop = 3, length = 100)
julia> surface(x, y, (x, y) -> sinc(norm([x, y])))

surface(x,y,z)
surface!(x,y,z)

Draw a 3D surface plot.

Example

julia> using LinearAlgebra
julia> x = y = range(-3, stop = 3, length = 100)
julia> surface(x, y, (x, y) -> sinc(norm([x, y])))

Add title to an existing plot

violin(x,y,z)
violin!(x,y,z)

Make a violin plot.

Example

julia> violin(repeat([1,2,3],outer=100),randn(300))

violin(x,y,z)
violin!(x,y,z)

Make a violin plot.

Example

julia> violin(repeat([1,2,3],outer=100),randn(300))

vline(x)
vline!(x)

Draw vertical lines at positions specified by the values in the AbstractVector x

Example

julia> vline([-1,0,2])

vline(x)
vline!(x)

Draw vertical lines at positions specified by the values in the AbstractVector x

Example

julia> vline([-1,0,2])

vspan(x)

Draw a rectangle between the vertical line at position x[1] and the vertical line at position x[2]. If length(x) ≥ 4, then further rectangles are drawn between x[3] and x[4], x[5] and x[6], and so on. If length(x) is odd, then the last entry of x is ignored.

Example

julia> vspan(1:6)

vspan(x)

Draw a rectangle between the vertical line at position x[1] and the vertical line at position x[2]. If length(x) ≥ 4, then further rectangles are drawn between x[3] and x[4], x[5] and x[6], and so on. If length(x) is odd, then the last entry of x is ignored.

Example

julia> vspan(1:6)

wireframe(x,y,z)
wireframe!(x,y,z)

Draw a 3D wireframe plot.

Example

julia> wireframe(1:10,1:10,randn(10,10))

wireframe(x,y,z)
wireframe!(x,y,z)

Draw a 3D wireframe plot.

Example

julia> wireframe(1:10,1:10,randn(10,10))

Specify x axis attributes for an existing plot

Flip the current plots' x axis

Add xlabel to an existing plot

Set xlims for an existing plot

Set xticks for an existing plot

Specify y axis attributes for an existing plot

Flip the current plots' y axis

Add ylabel to an existing plot

Set ylims for an existing plot

Set yticks for an existing plot

Set zlims for an existing plot

Animate from an iterator which returns the plot args each iteration.

frame(animation[, plot])

Add a plot (the current plot if not specified) to an existing animation

Collect one frame per for-block iteration and return an Animation object.

Example:

p = plot(1)
anim = @animate for x=0:0.1:5
    push!(p, 1, sin(x))
end
gif(anim)

Builds an Animation using one frame per loop iteration, then create an animated GIF.

Example:

  p = plot(1)
  @gif for x=0:0.1:5
    push!(p, 1, sin(x))
  end

current()

Returns the Plot object for the current plot

xlims([plt])

Returns the x axis limits of the current plot or subplot

ylims([plt])

Returns the y axis limits of the current plot or subplot

zlims([plt])

Returns the z axis limits of the current plot or subplot

backend_object(plot)

Returns the backend representation of a Plot object. Returns nothing if the backend does not support this.

plotattr([attr])

Look up the properties of a Plots attribute, or specify an attribute type. Call plotattr() for options. The information is the same as that given on https://docs.juliaplots.org/latest/attributes/.

display(x)
display(d::AbstractDisplay, x)
display(mime, x)
display(d::AbstractDisplay, mime, x)

AbstractDisplay x using the topmost applicable display in the display stack, typically using the richest supported multimedia output for x, with plain-text stdout output as a fallback. The display(d, x) variant attempts to display x on the given display d only, throwing a MethodError if d cannot display objects of this type.

In general, you cannot assume that display output goes to stdout (unlike print(x) or show(x)). For example, display(x) may open up a separate window with an image. display(x) means "show x in the best way you can for the current output device(s)." If you want REPL-like text output that is guaranteed to go to stdout, use show(stdout, "text/plain", x) instead.

There are also two variants with a mime argument (a MIME type string, such as "image/png"), which attempt to display x using the requested MIME type only, throwing a MethodError if this type is not supported by either the display(s) or by x. With these variants, one can also supply the "raw" data in the requested MIME type by passing x::AbstractString (for MIME types with text-based storage, such as text/html or application/postscript) or x::Vector{UInt8} (for binary MIME types).

To customize how instances of a type are displayed, overload show rather than display, as explained in the manual section on custom pretty-printing.

Close all open gui windows of the current backend

eps([plot,], filename)

Save plot as eps-file.

gui([plot])

Display a plot using the backends' gui window

html([plot,], filename)

Save plot as html-file.

json([plot,], filename)

Save plot as json-file.

pdf([plot,], filename)

Save plot as pdf-file.

png([plot,], filename)

Save plot as png-file.

ps([plot,], filename)

Save plot as ps-file.

savefig([plot,] filename)

Save a Plot (the current plot if plot is not passed) to file. The file type is inferred from the file extension. All backends support png and pdf file types, some also support svg, ps, eps, html and tex.

svg([plot,], filename)

Save plot as svg-file.

tex([plot,], filename)

Save plot as tex-file.

txt([plot,], filename)

Save plot as txt-file.