Prophet: Can anyone provide a .whl file?

[jindongwang]

Hi all, I'm having trouble with installing prophet under Window 10 with python 3.5. Can anyone offer a .whl file so I don't need to compile anymore? I believe it's the fastest way to setup.
Anyway, it'd be great if FB can officially offer the .whl file. Why do we need to build...

[tommybutler]

It _would_ be nice ;-)

[bletham]

There are some ongoing issues with Python-in-Windows which will prevent the installation from working. See #2 for some discussion. Basically there is an upstream issue with PyStan-in-Windows that prevents the Prophet model from compiling correctly, which can be tracked at https://github.com/stan-dev/pystan/issues/308.

[bash-j]

I am using Win7 64 and Python 3.5

Today I was able to install pystan using:
conda install pystan

I was also able to build the latest version of prophet from github. Not sure if this will work, I uploaded the compiled whl to my google drive: link

[bletham]

It looks like conda-forge provides a whl. I think for now we're going to rely on that being the solution for now.

conda install -c conda-forge fbprophet

[WilliamPourmajidi]

I have windows 10, Anaconda 3, Python 3.6 and used this method to install fbprophet and worked fine!
(C:\Users\William\Anaconda3\envs\Testtime) C:\Users\William>python -m pip install -U pip
Requirement already up-to-date: pip in c:\users\william\anaconda3\envs\testtime\lib\site-packages

(C:\Users\William\Anaconda3\envs\Testtime) C:\Users\William>conda install -c conda-forge pystan
Fetching package metadata ...............
Solving package specifications: .

Package plan for installation in environment C:\Users\William\Anaconda3\envs\Testtime:

The following NEW packages will be INSTALLED:

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cycler:                        0.10.0-py36_0         conda-forge
cython:                        0.27.3-py36_0         conda-forge
freetype:                      2.7-vc14_1            conda-forge [vc14]
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openssl:                       1.0.2m-vc14_0         conda-forge [vc14]
pyparsing:                     2.2.0-py36_0          conda-forge
pyqt:                          5.6.0-py36_4          conda-forge
pystan:                        2.17.0.0-py36_vc14_0  conda-forge [vc14]
python-dateutil:               2.6.1-py36_0          conda-forge
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tornado:                       4.5.2-py36_0          conda-forge
zlib:                          1.2.11-vc14_0         conda-forge [vc14]

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(C:\Users\William\Anaconda3\envs\Testtime) C:\Users\William>
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(C:\Users\William\Anaconda3\envs\Testtime) C:\Users\William>
(C:\Users\William\Anaconda3\envs\Testtime) C:\Users\William>conda install -c conda-forge pystan
Fetching package metadata ...............
Solving package specifications: .

All requested packages already installed.

packages in environment at C:\Users\William\Anaconda3\envs\Testtime:

#
pystan 2.17.0.0 py36_vc14_0 [vc14] conda-forge

(C:\Users\William\Anaconda3\envs\Testtime) C:\Users\William>pip install fbprophet
Collecting fbprophet
Using cached fbprophet-0.2.1.tar.gz
Requirement already satisfied: matplotlib in c:\users\william\anaconda3\envs\testtime\lib\site-packages (from fbprophet)
Collecting pandas>=0.18.1 (from fbprophet)
Downloading pandas-0.21.0-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl (9.1MB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 9.1MB 991kB/s
Requirement already satisfied: pystan>=2.14 in c:\users\william\anaconda3\envs\testtime\lib\site-packages (from fbprophet)
Requirement already satisfied: numpy>=1.7.1 in c:\users\william\anaconda3\envs\testtime\lib\site-packages (from matplotlib->fbprophet)
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Requirement already satisfied: python-dateutil>=2.0 in c:\users\william\anaconda3\envs\testtime\lib\site-packages (from matplotlib->fbprophet)
Requirement already satisfied: pytz in c:\users\william\anaconda3\envs\testtime\lib\site-packages (from matplotlib->fbprophet)
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Requirement already satisfied: Cython!=0.25.1,>=0.22 in c:\users\william\anaconda3\envs\testtime\lib\site-packages (from pystan>=2.14->fbprophet)
Building wheels for collected packages: fbprophet
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for fbprophet ... done
Stored in directory: C:\Users\William\AppData\Local\pip\Cache\wheels\e7\62\5b\94bb082348b1e1f45d3ab97a33982c5aaaefa7f2fecc1d3c89
Successfully built fbprophet
Installing collected packages: pandas, fbprophet
Successfully installed fbprophet-0.2.1 pandas-0.21.0

(C:\Users\William\Anaconda3\envs\Testtime) C:\Users\William>cd Anaconda3\envs\Testtime