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

ffmpeg

If you plan to render animated Toyplot figures as MP4 files, you’ll need ffmpeg, which also can’t be installed via pip. If you use Conda (again, strongly recommended), you can install it as follows:

$ conda install ffmpeg

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