Ability to load custom version of XPlot.Plotly

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I’ve made a small change to XPlot.Plotly (see https://github.com/fslaborg/XPlot/pull/144), and I’d like to be able to load that version of the library into a Jupyter notebook so that I can use it to create a chart. In that pull request, I’ve added support for the stackgroup field on the Graph.Scatter class.

Describe the solution you’d like I was expecting to be able to do something like this:

#i nuget:/Users/mscottford/src/corgibytes/XPlot/pkg
#r nuget:XPlot.Plotly,3.1.0-preview1-preview-LocalBuild

Which results in:

Restore sources

/Users/mscottford/src/corgibytes/XPlot/pkg

Installed package XPlot.Plotly version 3.1.0-preview1-preview-LocalBuild

But running this:

new Graph.Scatter { stackgroup = "test" }

results in:

(1,21): error CS0117: 'Graph.Scatter' does not contain a definition for 'stackgroup'

Describe alternatives you’ve considered I tried to use reflection to see what version of XPlot.Plotly is loaded.

typeof(Graph.Scatter).Assembly.ToString()

But that resulted in:

XPlot.Plotly, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null

So I wonder if there’s a shim between XPlot.Plotly that ships with dotnet-interactive which would need to be updated with the field that I added. I skimmed through the project source, and didn’t find anything obvious (at least to me 😄).

[jonsequitur]

Xplot.Plotly integration is now provided by an external package, Xplot.Plotly.Interactive, which you can install in your notebook using the following:

#r "nuget:xplot.plotly.interactive"

[mscottford]

@jonsequitur and @colombod I’m happy to submit a PR. I’ll send those in later this week. I’ll do one for the change to the install script and another for the changes as a result of compiling against XPlot.Plotly vNext.