WILL THIS FIX CIRCLE?

Author: gfyoung

pandas/tests/plotting/common.py

@@ -41,9 +41,18 @@ def _ok_for_gaussian_kde(kind):
     return True
 
 
-@tm.mplskip
 class TestPlotBase(tm.TestCase):
 
+    @classmethod
+    def setup_class(cls):
+        super(TestPlotBase, cls).setup_class()
+
+        try:
+            import matplotlib as mpl
+            mpl.use("Agg", warn=False)
+        except ImportError:
+            pytest.skip("matplotlib not installed")
+
     def setup_method(self, method):
 
         import matplotlib as mpl

pandas/tests/plotting/test_frame.py

@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@
                                           _ok_for_gaussian_kde)
 
 
-@tm.mplskip
 class TestDataFramePlots(TestPlotBase):
 
     def setup_method(self, method):

pandas/tests/plotting/test_groupby.py

@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 from pandas.tests.plotting.common import TestPlotBase
 
 
-@tm.mplskip
 class TestDataFrameGroupByPlots(TestPlotBase):
 
     def test_series_groupby_plotting_nominally_works(self):