diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index fb9a97a2..31817d0b 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -43,10 +43,10 @@ before_install:
 notifications:
   email: true
 # uncomment the following lines to override the default test script
-script:
- - if [[ -a .git/shallow ]]; then git fetch --unshallow; fi
- - julia -e 'import Pkg; Pkg.add(Pkg.PackageSpec(path=pwd())); Pkg.build("Plots")'
- - julia test/travis_commands.jl
+# script:
+ # - if [[ -a .git/shallow ]]; then git fetch --unshallow; fi
+ # - julia -e 'import Pkg; Pkg.add(Pkg.PackageSpec(path=pwd())); Pkg.build("Plots")'
+ # - julia test/travis_commands.jl
  # - julia -e 'Pkg.clone("ImageMagick"); Pkg.build("ImageMagick")'
  # - julia -e 'Pkg.clone("GR"); Pkg.build("GR")'
  # # - julia -e 'Pkg.clone("https://github.com/tbreloff/ImageMagick.jl.git"); Pkg.checkout("ImageMagick","tb_write"); Pkg.build("ImageMagick")'
diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/appveyor.yml
index a626cae5..15796f23 100644
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ b/appveyor.yml
@@ -31,8 +31,11 @@ install:
 build_script:
 # Need to convert from shallow to complete for Pkg.clone to work
   - IF EXIST .git\shallow (git fetch --unshallow)
-  - C:\projects\julia\bin\julia -e "versioninfo(); Pkg.clone(pwd(), \"Plots\"); Pkg.build(\"Plots\")"
+  - C:\projects\julia\bin\julia -e "
+    using InteractiveUtils, Pkg;
+    versioninfo();
+    Pkg.clone(pwd(), \"Plots\");
+    Pkg.build(\"Plots\")"
 
 test_script:
-  # - C:\projects\julia\bin\julia -e "Pkg.test(\"Plots\")"
-  - C:\projects\julia\bin\julia -e "include(Pkg.dir(\"Plots\", \"test\", \"travis_commands.jl\"))"
+  - C:\projects\julia\bin\julia -e "using Pkg; Pkg.test(\"Plots\")"
diff --git a/src/Plots.jl b/src/Plots.jl
index 2b96c5cb..e02cc169 100644
--- a/src/Plots.jl
+++ b/src/Plots.jl
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ ignorenan_minimum(x) = Base.minimum(x)
 ignorenan_maximum(x::AbstractArray{F}) where {F<:AbstractFloat} = NaNMath.maximum(x)
 ignorenan_maximum(x) = Base.maximum(x)
 ignorenan_mean(x::AbstractArray{F}) where {F<:AbstractFloat} = NaNMath.mean(x)
-ignorenan_mean(x) = Base.mean(x)
+ignorenan_mean(x) = Statistics.mean(x)
 ignorenan_extrema(x::AbstractArray{F}) where {F<:AbstractFloat} = NaNMath.extrema(x)
 ignorenan_extrema(x) = Base.extrema(x)
 
diff --git a/test/REQUIRE b/test/REQUIRE
index 6cd6a973..a11706d9 100644
--- a/test/REQUIRE
+++ b/test/REQUIRE
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ StatPlots
 Images
 ImageMagick
 @osx QuartzImageIO
+FileIO
 GR 0.31.0
 RDatasets
 VisualRegressionTests
diff --git a/test/add_packages.jl b/test/add_packages.jl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..655ec4d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/add_packages.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+using Pkg
+
+# need this to use Conda
+# ENV["PYTHON"] = ""
+
+Pkg.add([
+    PackageSpec(url="https://github.com/JuliaPlots/PlotReferenceImages.jl.git"),
+    # PackageSpec(url="https://github.com/JuliaStats/KernelDensity.jl.git"),
+    PackageSpec(name="PlotUtils", rev="master"),
+    PackageSpec(name="RecipesBase", rev="master"),
+    # PackageSpec(name="Blink", rev="master"),
+    # PackageSpec(name="Rsvg", rev="master"),
+    # PackageSpec(name="PlotlyJS", rev="master"),
+    # PackageSpec(name="VisualRegressionTests", rev="master"),
+    # PackageSpec("PyPlot"),
+    # PackageSpec("InspectDR"),
+])
+
+Pkg.build("ImageMagick")
+# Pkg.build("GR")
+# Pkg.build("Blink")
+# import Blink
+# Blink.AtomShell.install()
+# Pkg.build("PyPlot")
diff --git a/test/imgcomp.jl b/test/imgcomp.jl
index abc08b13..92841b92 100644
--- a/test/imgcomp.jl
+++ b/test/imgcomp.jl
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 using VisualRegressionTests
 # using ExamplePlots
 
+if isinteractive()
+    @eval Main import Gtk
+end
+
 # import DataFrames, RDatasets
 
 # don't let pyplot use a gui... it'll crash
@@ -15,6 +19,8 @@ using VisualRegressionTests
 
 using Plots
 # using StatPlots
+import PlotReferenceImages
+using Random
 using Test
 
 default(size=(500,300))
@@ -38,7 +44,7 @@ function image_comparison_tests(pkg::Symbol, idx::Int; debug = false, popup = is
 
     # reference image directory setup
     # refdir = joinpath(Pkg.dir("ExamplePlots"), "test", "refimg", string(pkg))
-    refdir = Pkg.dir("PlotReferenceImages", "Plots", string(pkg))
+    refdir = joinpath(dirname(pathof(PlotReferenceImages)), "..", "Plots", string(pkg))
     fn = "ref$idx.png"
 
     # firgure out version info
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index fd9f00bf..61d0e049 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 module PlotsTests
 
+include("add_packages.jl")
 include("imgcomp.jl")
 
 # don't actually show the plots
diff --git a/test/travis_commands.jl b/test/travis_commands.jl
deleted file mode 100644
index b4e6ff7e..00000000
--- a/test/travis_commands.jl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-using Pkg
-
-Pkg.add("ImageMagick")
-Pkg.build("ImageMagick")
-
-# Pkg.clone("GR")
-# Pkg.build("GR")
-
-Pkg.checkout("https://github.com/JuliaPlots/PlotReferenceImages.jl.git")
-
-# Pkg.clone("https://github.com/JuliaStats/KernelDensity.jl.git")
-
-# Pkg.add("StatPlots")
-Pkg.checkout("PlotUtils")
-Pkg.checkout("RecipesBase")
-
-# Pkg.clone("Blink")
-# Pkg.build("Blink")
-# import Blink
-# Blink.AtomShell.install()
-# Pkg.add("Rsvg")
-# Pkg.add("PlotlyJS")
-
-# Pkg.checkout("RecipesBase")
-# Pkg.clone("VisualRegressionTests")
-
-# need this to use Conda
-# ENV["PYTHON"] = ""
-# Pkg.add("PyPlot")
-# Pkg.build("PyPlot")
-
-# Pkg.add("InspectDR")
-
-Pkg.test("Plots"; coverage=false)