Filenames, Folders, and Updating Plotly Graphs in Julia in Julia

How to update Plotly graphs in Julia with the fileopt and filename parameter.

Specifying filenames, overwriting files, and updating graphs at their unique URLs

By default, Plotly will create a new file when you call Plotly.plot. To overwrite a graph, include ["filename" => "basic-line", "fileopt" => "overwrite"] as the last argument:

using Plotly

trace1 = [
  "x" => [1, 2, 3, 4],
  "y" => [10, 15, 13, 17],
  "type" => "scatter"
]
trace2 = [
  "x" => [1, 2, 3, 4],
  "y" => [16, 5, 11, 9],
  "type" => "scatter"
]
data = [trace1, trace2]
response = Plotly.plot(data, ["filename" => "basic-line", "fileopt" => "overwrite"])
plot_url = response["url"]

If a graph named "basic-line" already exists in your account, then it will be overwritten with this new version and the URL of the graph will persist.

Saving to a folder

Filenames that contain "/" be treated as a Plotly directory and will be saved to your Plotly account in a folder tree. For example, to save your graphs to the folder my-graphs:

Plotly.plot(data, ["filename" => "my-graphs/basic-line", "fileopt" => "overwrite"])

If the folder doesn't exist, it will be created.

Creating new files

using Plotly

trace1 = [
  "x" => [1, 2, 3, 4],
  "y" => [10, 15, 13, 17],
  "type" => "scatter"
]
trace2 = [
  "x" => [1, 2, 3, 4],
  "y" => [16, 5, 11, 9],
  "type" => "scatter"
]
data = [trace1, trace2]
response = Plotly.plot(data, ["filename" => "basic-line", "fileopt" => "new"])
plot_url = response["url"]

With fileopt='new', Plotly will always create a new file. If a file with the same name already exists, then Plotly will append a '(1)' to the end of the filename, e.g. basic-line (1) and create a unique URL.