BarChart Not Working Properly

[chelseas]

fig = PGFPlots.Axis()
push!(fig, PGFPlots.Plots.BarChart([1,2]))
PGFPlots.save("test_bar.pdf", fig)

produces

[mirkobunse]

Looks like PGFPlots does not add the ybar option to the axis:

julia> println(tikzCode(fig))

\begin{axis}
\addplot+ coordinates {
  (1, 1)
  (2, 2)
};
\end{axis}

[mykelk]

You can try this:

The issue with the original code is that fig = PGFPlots.Axis() creates an axis with no properties, and to get this kind of axis plot, the ybar property of the axis needs to be set.

[chelseas]

The problem with this solution is that I would like to make a grouped bar chart by pushing multiple BarCharts onto a single Axis. One solution is to manually set ybar in the latex code but is there another solution?

[mykelk]

You can create the Axis using my method with the first bar chart, and then push on additional bar charts to that axis.

[chelseas]

Your method returns an object of type
PGFPlots.Plots.BarChart
but I'm guessing perhaps there's some way to extract the associated Axis object?

[mykelk]

I think you can do this: