[Tex/LaTex] Option clash with xcolor and TikZ

colorincompatibilitypackage-optionspackagestikz-pgf

I want to draw some coloured circles, so I loaded tikz in my preamble. However, now xcolor is telling me that it has an "option clash". How should I fix this?

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}

\begin{document}
Hello world.
\end{document}

The error message is this:

! LaTeX Error: Option clash for package xcolor.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
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The package xcolor has already been loaded with options:
  []
There has now been an attempt to load it with options
  [table]
Adding the global options:
  ,table
to your \documentclass declaration may fix this.
Try typing  <return>  to proceed.

Best Answer

Load xcolor before tikz:

\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}

The problem is that pgf/tikz already loads xcolor so loading it again with a new package option triggers the error message.

Another option is to pass the table option to the class and not to the xcolor package. Then the packages can be loaded in any order:

\documentclass[table]{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}

\documentclass[table]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{xcolor}

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These option clashes happen when a package is requested to be loaded on two different positions, like by you and inside another package, but with different options. The package is loaded by the first \usepackage (or its twin \RequirePackage); it isn't loaded again when it is requested again. It simply can't be loaded a second time. Therefore the new options can be activated and previous options might conflict with the second usage. So LaTeX creates an error to report this issue to you.

The way to fix this is to declare the options beforehand using \PassOptionsToPackage{<options>}{<package>}. Then they are used wherever the package is loaded.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ifpdf}
\ifpdf
    \PassOptionsToPackage{pdftex,usenames,dvipsnames}{color}
    \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
    \usepackage{libertine} % most likely loads 'color' itself
    %\usepackage{lmodern} % doesn't load 'color'
    \usepackage{color}
    \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\else
    %\bye
\fi
\begin{document}
Hello, world!
\end{document}

I can't test it by myself, because I don't have the libertine package installed.

PS:

I don't think you need to set pdftex manually. Normally packages do a good job recognizing the driver by themselves. Also you might want to use the extended xcolor package instead of color.

[Tex/LaTex] Option clash for package xcolor

Once you get the error message:

! LaTeX Error: Option clash for package xcolor.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              

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type "h" (without the quotation marks, for help) in the output console and you get

? h
The package xcolor has already been loaded with options:
  []
There has now been an attempt to load it with options
  [table]
Adding the global options:
  ,table
to your \documentclass declaration may fix this.

So, you get an explanation of the problem and a possible solution. Doing as advised you prevent the clash:

\documentclass[a4paper,oneside,article,table]{memoir}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[danish]{babel}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{graphicx}
    \graphicspath{{Figures/}}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage{modroman}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{xcolor}

\begin{document}
test
\end{document}

Now, the problem was that another package (pgfplots, in this case) had already loaded the xcolor package without options, so loading it after pgfplots with the table option produces the clash. One way to prevent the problem was already presented (using table as class option); another solution is to load xcolor with the table option before pgfplots:

\documentclass[a4paper,oneside,article]{memoir}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[danish]{babel}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{graphicx}
    \graphicspath{{Figures/}}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage{modroman}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage{mathtools}

\begin{document}
test
\end{document}

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