Installation issues

DataPlotly relies on plotly library and uses heavily its python API.

Due to some issues with the QWebKit framework, it is not possible to backport DataPlotly for QGIS 2.x: so DataPlotly is available only for QGIS 3 (current QGIS master) that relies on Qt5.

Windows users

Windows uses don't have to take care of anything: plotly library is shipped together with the QGIS installation and no other installations are needed.

Linux users

In order to use the plugin, Linux users have to be sure that plotly library is correctly installed.

To install plotly just open a terminal and type:

$ sudo apt-get install python3-plotly

WARNING: Dataplotly works with plotly versions >= 2.0.13

To see if you already have pltoly installed, open the python console in QGIS and type:

import plotly

if you don't have any errors, then plotly is correctly installed. To check the version, in the python console type:

plotly.__version__

and the version number will be printed in the console.

and be sure to have also the QtWebKit frameworks installed:

$ sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5.qtwebkit