It works. Thanks! On 11 March 2016 at 17:32, Spencer Lyon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Daniel, > > The issue you're seeing is that PlotlyJS uses Blink to spin up a dedicated > electron window as the plotting GUI. > > When Blink.jl is installed it doesn't automatically install electron for > you, but it does know how to install electron. To do that just enter `using > Blink; Blink.AtomShell.install()` and everything should be taken care of > for you. Then when you use the plotlyjs backend from the REPL you will get > an electron display for your plots. More details on why you want electron > as the GUI window here: > http://spencerlyon.com/PlotlyJS.jl/syncplots/#electronplot > > Also, if you are plotting from an IJulia notebook plotlyjs plots will > display in the notebook by default and you won't ever need to install > electron. > > Good luck! > > On Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 2:03:14 PM UTC-5, Daniel Carrera wrote: >> >> On 10 March 2016 at 18:23, Tom Breloff <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 12:08 PM, j verzani <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> As someone who has watched his calculus students struggle with what >>>> should be a trivial task -- the installation of `Plots` on `juliabox`, I've >>>> wished it were part of base. >>>> >>> >>> While in my (very biased) opinion I think Plots should be the first >>> package new users install, I don't think it belongs in base. (please don't >>> make me rebuild julia to hack on Plots ;) >>> >> >> >> I think Plots could be part of the "standard library" (to borrow a term >> from Python). So it would not be in Base, but it could be pre-installed. >> Plotting is one of the most common things that scientists and engineers do. >> Maybe not right now, but when Plots is more mature. >> >> Speaking of which, I'm also having trouble with PlotlyJS. >> >> >> julia> plotlyjs() >> Plots.PlotlyJSPackage() >> >> julia> plot(Plots.fakedata(50,5),w=3) >> [Plots.jl] Initializing backend: plotlyjs >> INFO: Precompiling module Blink... >> INFO: Recompiling stale cache file /home/daniel/.julia/lib/v0.4/Nettle.ji >> for module Nettle. >> ERROR: Cannot find Electron. Try `AtomShell.install()`. >> in electron at /home/daniel/.julia/v0.4/Blink/src/AtomShell/process.jl:49 >> ... >> >> >> For some reason, PlotlyJS seems to think that I am running it from Atom. >> :-( >> >> >>
