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1.13 works but not 1.15? Error: Choice '1.15' unknown in choice key 'p

What to do?

MWE:

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.13}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
 \begin{axis}[scaled ticks=false,]
    \addplot coordinates {
        (20000,0.0005)
        (40000,0.0010)
        (60000,0.0020)    };
 \end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
Saravanan
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guenther
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The compat number refers to version numbers for the pgfplots package. By setting the compat you tell pgfplots to use settings/features from that specific version.

If 1.15 doesn't work, that means you don't have version 1.15 of pgfplots installed. The compat setting can not look into the future.

Just use 1.13, or possibly try 1.14.

If you want to update pgfplots, you might be able to use the TeX Live Utility to do that, see How do I update my TeX distribution?, assuming you're using MacTeX.

Torbjørn T.
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  • Thank you so much, but from compat it is so hard to guess that this is actually version. – user1700890 Mar 16 '20 at 16:57
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    @user1700890 Not sure if I understand, but if you want to figure out which version you actually have installed, you can use \pgfplotsversion, e.g. \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{pgfplots} \begin{document} \pgfplotsversion \end{document}. – Torbjørn T. Mar 16 '20 at 17:24
  • I actually could not get \usepgfplotslibrary{fillbetween} to work with compat =1.10. Took me forever to figure out that this is due to version. compat =1.11 solved it. I guess compat is for compatability. – user1700890 Mar 16 '20 at 17:40
  • @user1700890 Well yes, compat is short for compatibility. However, the fillbetween library can work perfectly fine with compat=1.10, or even no compat setting, try for example the first example in the section of the manual describing the library. So if you want to understand why your code failed with 1.10, make a complete example and ask a question about it. The one change I know about from 1.10 to 1.11 is that a coordinate such as in \draw (1,2) .. will be interpreted as being in axis coordinates with 1.11, but not with 1.10 where you'd need \draw (axis cs:1,2) for the same res. – Torbjørn T. Mar 16 '20 at 17:42
  • Good point, posted: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/532832/interaction-between-compat-1-10-compat-1-11-and-fillbetween – user1700890 Mar 16 '20 at 17:50