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what is a conda environment?

  • in python or R, we need to install packages to add functionality to our programs so that we do not have to program everything by ourselves.
  • sometimes as the version of a package evolves, it might change behaviour. As a result of this, the code that we wrote two years ago, might not run out of the box anymore.
  • even if we do get our code to run properly, it is truly a mightmare to send our code to others and expect them to run it.
  • python environments are a solution intended for the above scenarios, where an environment can be trusted to maintain a specfic version of a packages, even if the packages are upgraded. It also becomes easy to send our code to someone else, where they can install the software mentioned in our project directory called requirements.txt.
  • conda environments offer the same feature as above, but for both python and R.
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