D3 updating data on box plot without removing previous SVG first - javascript

I'm following the box plot on this page Box Plot Link. In this example it reads in the box plot values from a data file. I'm trying to add a button that will read in new data from another data file and update the box plot.
Here's the code they use to first create the box plot.
var svg = d3.select("#viz").selectAll("svg")
.data(data)
.enter().append("svg")
.attr("class", "box")
.attr("width", width + margin.left + margin.right)
.attr("height", height + margin.bottom + margin.top)
.append("g")
.attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")")
.call(chart.duration(1000));
and this to update the box plots every second
setInterval(function() {
svg.datum(randomize).call(chart.duration(1000));
}, 2000);
When I click on the update button it calls my snippet here:
var svg = d3.select("#viz").selectAll("svg")
.data(data)
.enter().append("svg")
.attr("class", "box")
.attr("width", width + margin.left + margin.right)
.attr("height", height + margin.bottom + margin.top)
.append("g")
.attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")");
svg.call(chart.duration(1000));
However this won't update my boxplot. If I want the box plot to change, I have to first remove the box plot SVG first
d3.selectAll('svg').remove();
But I'd like to have an transition rather than new box plots. Why do I have to remove the previous SVG first? Any help?

So I made the following changes to the update of the data
var svg = d3.select("#viz").selectAll("svg").data(data)
svg.call(chart.duration(duration));
svg.enter().append("svg")
.attr("class", "box")
.attr("id", function (d, i) {
return "box_" + i;
})
.attr("width", width + margin.left + margin.right)
.attr("height", height + margin.bottom + margin.top)
.append("g")
.attr("id", function (d, i) {
return "g_" + i;
})
.attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")")
.call(chart.duration(duration))
svg.exit().remove();
and there is actually some bugs with that box.js code that needs to be fixed which I found about here:
D3 Datum Update Boxplot

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