html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,issue https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/3484#issuecomment-627316607,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/3484,627316607,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDYyNzMxNjYwNw==,23187108,2020-05-12T12:39:07Z,2020-05-12T12:39:07Z,NONE,"> da.copy(data=da.data.todense()).plot() should work. It works indeed, thank you!","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,517338735 https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/3484#issuecomment-626787590,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/3484,626787590,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDYyNjc4NzU5MA==,23187108,2020-05-11T15:49:24Z,2020-05-11T15:49:24Z,NONE,"Hello, do you have any documentation on how to plot data in a sparse array using `xarray.plot` accessor? I get this error, but if I convert to numpy/scipy with `todense()` method I will likely lose the convenient plot method from xarray... Thank you for your help ```python ------------------------------------------------------------------------- RuntimeError Traceback (most recent call last) in ----> 1 slice_res_ds['value'].plot() ~/.pyenv/versions/emi/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xarray/plot/plot.py in __call__(self, **kwargs) 463 464 def __call__(self, **kwargs): --> 465 return plot(self._da, **kwargs) 466 467 @functools.wraps(hist) ~/.pyenv/versions/emi/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xarray/plot/plot.py in plot(darray, row, col, col_wrap, ax, hue, rtol, subplot_kws, **kwargs) 200 kwargs[""ax""] = ax 201 --> 202 return plotfunc(darray, **kwargs) 203 204 ~/.pyenv/versions/emi/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xarray/plot/plot.py in newplotfunc(darray, x, y, figsize, size, aspect, ax, row, col, col_wrap, xincrease, yincrease, add_colorbar, add_labels, vmin, vmax, cmap, center, robust, extend, levels, infer_intervals, colors, subplot_kws, cbar_ax, cbar_kwargs, xscale, yscale, xticks, yticks, xlim, ylim, norm, **kwargs) 692 693 # Pass the data as a masked ndarray too --> 694 zval = darray.to_masked_array(copy=False) 695 696 # Replace pd.Intervals if contained in xval or yval. ~/.pyenv/versions/emi/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xarray/core/dataarray.py in to_masked_array(self, copy) 2301 Masked where invalid values (nan or inf) occur. 2302 """""" -> 2303 values = self.values # only compute lazy arrays once 2304 isnull = pd.isnull(values) 2305 return np.ma.MaskedArray(data=values, mask=isnull, copy=copy) ~/.pyenv/versions/emi/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xarray/core/dataarray.py in values(self) 565 def values(self) -> np.ndarray: 566 """"""The array's data as a numpy.ndarray"""""" --> 567 return self.variable.values 568 569 @values.setter ~/.pyenv/versions/emi/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xarray/core/variable.py in values(self) 446 def values(self): 447 """"""The variable's data as a numpy.ndarray"""""" --> 448 return _as_array_or_item(self._data) 449 450 @values.setter ~/.pyenv/versions/emi/lib/python3.6/site-packages/xarray/core/variable.py in _as_array_or_item(data) 252 TODO: remove this (replace with np.asarray) once these issues are fixed 253 """""" --> 254 data = np.asarray(data) 255 if data.ndim == 0: 256 if data.dtype.kind == ""M"": ~/.pyenv/versions/emi/lib/python3.6/site-packages/numpy/core/_asarray.py in asarray(a, dtype, order) 83 84 """""" ---> 85 return array(a, dtype, copy=False, order=order) 86 87 ~/.pyenv/versions/emi/lib/python3.6/site-packages/sparse/_sparse_array.py in __array__(self, **kwargs) 221 if not AUTO_DENSIFY: 222 raise RuntimeError( --> 223 ""Cannot convert a sparse array to dense automatically. "" 224 ""To manually densify, use the todense method."" 225 ) RuntimeError: Cannot convert a sparse array to dense automatically. To manually densify, use the todense method. ```","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,517338735