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

Answer 3

I found an answer her:

Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 is required (Unable to find vcvarsall.bat) by Sushant Chaudhary

Thank you!!

Answer 4

Try installing fbprophet

pip install fbprophet

Or

pip3 install fbprophet

Answer 5

On Windows it's easier using anaconda or miniconda, just give

conda install pystan

and it will install all the needed dependencies, included the c++ compiler, then

pip install fbprophet

in Linux systems, for example, ubuntu, a simple

pip install pystan
pip install fbprophet 

should work, without installing anaconda/miniconda

Answer 6

I had relatively similar problem, but my error was it couldn't import pystan which in installed using pip install pystan . so the problem was fbprophet doesn't support latest version of pystan so uninstall previous one and install older version of pystan.

pip install pystan==2.19.1.1 pip install fbprophet

https://facebook.github.io/prophet/docs/installation.html

Answer 7

.pip install pystan==2.19.1.1 fbprophet ##### i was trying to install fbprophet==0.7.1 but in the presence of cmdstanpy==0.9.5 it was unable to build the wheel for fbprophet. after executing the above command for installing pystan==2.19.1.1 collectively with fbprophet successfully installed cmdstanpy-0.9.5 fbprophet-0.7.1 note that there is no version specified for fbprophet in the command and pystan is specified with version 2.19.1.1 to avoid dependency conflicts.

Answer 8

This worked for me. pip3 was a must!

pip3 install pystan 
pip3 install fbprophet