
Installation
Toyplot
To install the latest stable version of Toyplot and its dependencies, use pip:
$ pip install toyplot
… once it completes, you’ll be able to use all of Toyplot’s core features.
Ghostscript
To generate static PNG versions of your Toyplot figures, you’ll need Ghostscript, which can’t be installed via pip. If you use Conda (which we strongly recommend), you can install it as follows:
$ conda install ghostscript
Documentation
We assume that you’ll normally access this documentation online, but if you want a local copy on your own computer, do the following:
First, you’ll need the pandoc universal document converter, which can’t be installed with pip … if you use Conda (we cannot recommend it strongly enough), you can install it with the following:
$ conda install pandoc
Once you have pandoc, install Toyplot along with all of the dependencies needed to build the docs:
$ pip install toyplot[doc]
Next, do the following to download a tarball to the current directory containing all of the Toyplot source code, which includes the documentation:
$ pip download toyplot --no-binary=:all: --no-deps
Now, you can extract the tarball contents and build the documentation (adjust the following for the version you downloaded):
$ tar xzvf toyplot-0.6.1.tar.gz
$ cd toyplot-0.6.1/docs
$ make html