Downloading a package from Anaconda

Sometimes, users might generate their own packages and upload them to Anaconda Cloud. For a group project, group members can do so as well. Thus, we need to know how to download a package from Anaconda Cloud. Here is the general procedure:

  1. Go to http://anaconda.org
  2. Search packages by using a keyword or keywords, as in the example here:

Assume that we are interested in the r-data.table package.

  1. Issue the following command:
conda install -c r-data.table 

Sometimes, we can generate a set of functions and share with others. Here is one simple example. Assume that we generate the following program with several ...

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