Anaconda is a free Python distribution focused on large-scale data processing, analytics, and numeric computing. The following are the key features of Anaconda:
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The following instructions detail how to install Anaconda on all three platforms. The download location is http://continuum.io/downloads. The version of Python is Python 2.7 in Anaconda by default.
Perform the following steps for installation:
bash <Linux installer file>
For example, bash Anaconda-1.8.0-Linux-x86_64.sh
.
$HOME/local
for my local third-party software installations.As a shortcut, you can define ANACONDA_HOME
to be the folder into which Anaconda was installed. For example, on my Linux and Mac OS X installations, I have the following environment variable setting:
ANACONDA_HOME=$HOME/local/anaconda
On Windows, it would be as follows:
set ANACONDA_HOME=C:Anaconda
Add the Anaconda bin
folder to your PATH
environment variable. If you wish to use the Python Anaconda by default, you can do this by making sure that $ANACONDA_HOME/bin
is at the head of the PATH
variable before the folder containing System Python. If you don't want to use the Anaconda Python by default, you have the following two options:
source $HOME/local/anaconda/bin/activate $ANACONDA_HOME
conda
command as described here: https://github.com/pydata/conda.For more information, read the Conda documentation at http://docs.continuum.io/conda/index.html. More detailed instructions on installing Anaconda can be obtained from the Anaconda Installation page at http://docs.continuum.io/anaconda/install.html.