chart js load totally new data

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The API for chart js allows one to edit points of the datasets loaded into it  for example       update         Calling update   on your Chart instance will re-render the chart with   any updated values  allowing you to edit the value of multiple   existing points  then render those in one animated render loop        addData  valuesArray  label        Calling addData valuesArray  label  on your Chart instance passing an   array of values for each dataset  along with a label for those points        removeData         Calling removeData   on your Chart instance will remove the first   value for all datasets on the chart    All of these are great  but I cannot figure out how to load an entirely new dataset in  wiping out the old  The documentation does not seem to cover this

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With Chart js V2 0 you can to do the following   websiteChart config data   some new data  websiteChart update

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There is a way to do this without clearing the canvas or starting over  but you have to man handle the creation of the chart so that the data is in the same format for when you update   Here is how I did it       var ctx   document getElementById  myChart   getContext  2d        if  chartExists            for  i 0 i lt 10 i                 myNewChart scale xLabels i  dbLabels i                myNewChart datasets 0  bars i  value dbOnAir i                     myNewChart update           else            console log  chart doesnt exist              myNewChart   new Chart ctx  Bar dataNew             myNewChart removeData              for  i 0 i lt 10 i                   myNewChart addData  10  dbLabels i                          for  i 0 i lt 10 i                         myNewChart datasets 0  bars i  value dbOnAir i                         myNewChart update              chartExists true              I basically scrap the data loaded in at creation  and then reform with the add data method  This means that I can then access all the points  Whenever I have tried to access the data structure that is created by the   Chart ctx  Bar dataNew     command  I can t access what I need  This means you can change all the data points  in the same way you created them  and also call update   without animating completely from scratch

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I ran into the same issue  I have 6 pie charts on a page which can all be updated at the same time   I am using the following function to reset chart data    x000D   x000D     sets chart segment data for previously rendered charts x000D  function  resetChartData chart  new segments    x000D         remove all the segments x000D      while  chart segments length    x000D          chart removeData    x000D         x000D   x000D         add the new data fresh x000D      new segments forEach  function  segment  index    x000D          chart addData segment  index   x000D          x000D     x000D   x000D     when I want to reset my data I call x000D   resetChartData some chart  new data segments   x000D  some chart update    x000D   x000D   x000D

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You need to clean old data   No need to re initialize   for  i in myChartLine datasets 0  points      myChartLine removeData

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I had loads of trouble with this too  I have data and labels in separate arrays then I reinitialise the chart data  I added the line destroy    as suggested above which has done the trick   x000D   x000D  var ctx   document getElementById  canvas   getContext  2d    x000D  if window myLine   x000D   window myLine destroy    x000D    x000D  window myLine   new Chart ctx  Line lineChartData    x000D    etc x000D    etc x000D   x000D   x000D

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None of the above answers helped my particular situation in a very clean way with minimal code  I needed to remove all datasets and then loop to add in several datasets dynamically  So this snipped is for those that make it all the way to the bottom of the page without finding their answer     Note  make sure to call chart update   once you have loaded all of your new data into the dataset object  Hope this helps somebody   function removeData chart       chart data datasets length   0     function addData chart  data      chart data datasets push data

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My solution to this is pretty simple   VERSION 1 X   getDataSet function valuesArr1 valuesArr2           var dataset               var arr1                 label     myvalues1                fillColor   rgba 0  138  212 0 5                strokeColor   rgba 220 220 220 0 8                highlightFill   rgba 0  138  212 0 75                highlightStroke   rgba 220 220 220 1                data  valuesArr1                    var arr2                 label     myvalues2                fillColor   rgba 255  174  087 0 5                strokeColor   rgba 220 220 220 0 8                highlightFill   rgba 255  174  087 0 75                highlightStroke   rgba 220 220 220 1                data  valuesArr2                      Example conditions           if condition 1            dataset push arr1                     if condition 2             dataset push arr1             dataset push arr2                      return dataset         var data         labels  mylabelone      datasets  getDataSet      if myBarChart    null     i initialize myBarChart var with null     myBarChart destroy       if not null call destroy     myBarChart   new Chart ctxmini  Bar data  options    render it again       No flickering or problems  getDataSet is a function to control what dataset I need to present

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I answered this here see How to clear a chart from a canvas so that hover events cannot be triggered   But here is the solution   var myPieChart null   function drawChart objChart data       if myPieChart  null           myPieChart destroy                 Get the context of the canvas element we want to select     var ctx   objChart getContext  2d        myPieChart   new Chart ctx  Pie data   animateScale  true

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According to docs  clear   clears the canvas  Think of it as the Eraser tool in Paint  It has nothing to do with the data currently loaded in the chart instance   Destroying the instance and creating a new one is wasteful  Instead  use API methods removeData   and addData    These will add remove a single segment to from the chart instance  So if you want to load completely new data  just loop a chart data array  and call removeData index   array indexes should correspond to current segment indexes   Then  use addData index  to fill it with the new data  I suggest wrapping the two methods for looping the data  as they expect a single segment index  I use resetChart and updateChart  Before continuing  make sure you check Chart js latest version and documentation  They may have added new methods for replacing the data completely

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I had huge problems with this  First I tried  clear   then I tried  destroy   and I tried setting my chart reference to null  What finally fixed the issue for me  deleting the  lt canvas gt  element and then reappending a new  lt canvas gt  to the parent container    There s a million ways to do this   var resetCanvas   function            results-graph   remove       this is my  lt canvas gt  element       graph-container   append   lt canvas id  results-graph  gt  lt canvas gt       canvas   document querySelector   results-graph       why use jQuery    ctx   canvas getContext  2d      ctx canvas width       graph   width       resize to parent width   ctx canvas height       graph   height       resize to parent height    var x   canvas width 2    var y   canvas height 2    ctx font    10pt Verdana     ctx textAlign    center     ctx fillText  This text is centered on the canvas   x  y

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When creating the chart object you need to save the instance in a variable  var currentChart   new Chart ctx         And before loading new data  you need to destroy it  currentChart destroy

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I tried neaumusic solution  but later found out that the only problem with destroy is the scope    var chart   function renderGraph            Destroy old graph     if  chart            chart destroy                  Render chart     chart   new Chart          document getElementById idChartMainWrapperCanvas           chartOptions            Moving my chart variable outside the function scope  got it working for me

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It is an old thread  but in the current version  as of 1-feb-2017   it easy to replace datasets plotted on chart js   suppose your new x-axis values are in array x and y-axis values are in array y  you can use below code to update the chart   var x    1 2 3   var y    1 1 1    chart data datasets 0  data   y  chart data labels   x   chart update

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If anyone is looking for how to do this in React  For a linechart  assuming you have a wrapper component around the chart    This assumes you are using v2  You do not need to use react-chartjs  This is using the normal chart js package from npm    propTypes      data  React PropTypes shape       datasets  React PropTypes arrayOf        React PropTypes shape                        labels  React PropTypes array isRequired      isRequired    componentDidMount        let chartCanvas   this refs chart     let myChart   new Chart chartCanvas        type   line       data  this props data      options                             this setState  chart  myChart       componentDidUpdate          let chart   this state chart      let data   this props data       data datasets forEach  dataset  i    gt  chart data datasets i  data   dataset data        chart data labels   data labels      chart update       render        return        lt canvas ref   chart   height   400   width   600   gt  lt  canvas gt           The componentDidUpdate functionality allows you to update  add  or remove any data from the this props data

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Please Learn how Chart js  version 2 here  works and do it for whatever attribute you want   1 Please suppose you have a bar chart like the below in your HTML    lt canvas id  your-chart-id  height  your-height  width  your-width  gt  lt  canvas gt    2 Please suppose you have a javascript code that fills your chart first time  for example when page is loaded    var ctx   document getElementById  your-chart-id   getContext  2d    var chartInstance   new Chart ctx        type   bar       data            labels  your-lables-array          datasets                 data  your-data-array                you can create random colors dynamically by ColorHash library  https   github com zenozeng color-hash                backgroundColor  your-lables-array map function  item                    return colorHash hex item                                        options            maintainAspectRatio  false          scales                yAxes      ticks   beginAtZero  true                         title   display  true  fontSize  16  text   chart title            legend   display  false               Please suppose you want to update fully your dataset  It is very simple  Please look at the above code and see how is the path from your chart variable to data and then follow the below path    select chartInstance var  Then select data node inside the chartInstance  Then select datasets node inside the data node  note  As you can see  the datasets node is an array  so you have to specify which element of this array you want  here we have only one element in the datasets node  so we use datasets 0  So select datasets 0  Then select data node inside in the datasets 0      This steps gives you chartInstance data datasets 0  data and you can set new data and update the chart   chartInstance data datasets 0  data   NEW-your-data-array   finally update chart var  chartInstance update       Note  By following the above algorithm  you can simply achieve to each node you want

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The only solution I can find so far for myself is to re-initialize the chart from scratch   var myLineChart   new Chart ctx  Line data  options     However this seems a bit hokey to me  Any better  more standard solution anybody

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You need to destroy   myLineChart destroy      Then re-initialize the chart   var ctx   document getElementById  myChartLine   getContext  2d    myLineChart   new Chart ctx  Line data  options

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ChartJS 2 6 supports data reference replacement  see Note in update config  documentation   So when you have your Chart  you could basically just do this   myChart data labels     1am    2am    3am    4am    myChart data datasets 0  data    0  12  35  36   myChart update      It doesn t do the animation you d get from adding points  but existing points on the graph will be animated

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Chart JS 2 0  Just set chart data labels        For example   function addData chart  label  data        chart data labels push label       chart data datasets forEach  dataset    gt           dataset data push data               chart update        chart data labels          each res grouped  function i o       addData  chart  o age  o count        chart update

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Not is necesary destroy the chart  Try with this  function removeData chart             let total   chart data labels length           while  total  gt   0                chart data labels pop                chart data datasets 0  data pop                total--                     chart update

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