Quadmesh with multiple key dimensions throwing error

Hello,

I’m trying to adapt this example to my own data. The example successfully creates a quadmesh indexed by time and S-coordinate. Replacing the data with my own results in a KeyError when calling quadmesh (reproducible example below).

I imagine this must have to do with my dataset or its metadata, but I’m scratching my head as to what.

import numpy as np
import xarray as xr
import hvplot.xarray
import holoviews as hv
import pandas as pd

# make some pseudodata
temp = 15 + 8 * np.random.randn(2, 2, 4, 3)
precip = 10 * np.random.rand(2, 2, 4, 3)
lon = [[-99.83, -99.32], [-99.79, -99.23]]
lat = [[42.25, 42.21], [42.63, 42.59]]

# for real use cases, its good practice to supply array attributes such as
# units, but we won't bother here for the sake of brevity
ds = xr.Dataset({'temperature': (['x', 'y', 'z', 'time'],  temp),
                 'precipitation': (['x', 'y', 'z', 'time'], precip)},
                coords={'lon': (['x', 'y'], lon),
                        'lat': (['x', 'y'], lat),
                        'z': np.arange(4),
                        'time': pd.date_range('2014-09-06', periods=3),
                        'reference_time': pd.Timestamp('2014-09-05')})

#this works (by removing variability along the z dimension)
ds['temperature'].sel(z=1).hvplot.quadmesh(x='lon', y='lat', groupby='time')
#this throws a KeyError
ds['temperature'].hvplot.quadmesh(x='lon', y='lat', groupby=['z', 'time'])

Sorry for not replying to this sooner and driving you to post to Gitter instead. As I indicated there this is a real bug and is fixed in https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/4188.

You beat me to it - I was composing an update but got distracted trying to learn to install a GitHub pull request to a conda environment.

No worries! Thanks so much for looking into it.

Oh -and the fix is working for me :slight_smile: