Prophet / fbprophet package in Python

Question

Can someone explain how to install Prophet on Python3?

I tried pip install fbprophet but it did not work.

Tried to do this in the notebook after importing pandas and sklearn and got another error:

import pandas as pd
import sklearn as sk
from fbprophet import Prophet
ModuleNotFoundError                       Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-4-f503e9c6cf11> in <module>()
----> 1 from fbprophet import Prophet

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'fbprophet'

Answer 1

First you have to Install c++ compiler, you can install c++ compiler with below command -

conda install libpython m2w64-toolchain -c msys2

Once c++ compiler installed you have to install pystan, to install pystan you can use below command

pip install pystan

Finally, now we are ready to install facebook prophet -

pip install fbprophet

Hope this is helpful..

For more details follow this link - https://facebook.github.io/prophet/docs/installation.html

Answer 2

Easiest way is to install fbprophet :

conda install -c conda-forge fbprophet

This will download all the needed packages first.

Then ->

  conda install -c conda-forge/label/cf201901 fbprophet