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I am trying to install feature-engine module on anaconda this is the error i am getting Package is not available from current channels repo.anaconda win 64 , noarch etc. Can you please help me with the problem? Thanks, RD

piniki
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to install from anaconda:

conda install -c conda-forge feature_engine
Sole Galli
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I believe that feature-engine is not available through anaconda channels for installation with conda install. I was able to install it via pip. Here is how I did it (in Windows):

  1. open a CMD and run conda activate <<VIRTUALENV>>. This is the environment you create for your project. If you have not created one, then use base, the default one.
  2. cd to the location of your pip installation within that activated conda Virtual environment (mine was within my user folder in \AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\envs\<<VIRTUALENV>>\Scripts).
  3. in there, run pip install feature-engine
  4. you should now be able to see it listed under pip freeze or pip list, but not under conda list.
  5. Finally, go to your code location and run the code. remember to activate that same <> each time you open a new CMD to run it.

Hope it helps.

José Angel Rodríguez Ramos
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If you are using Jupyter Notebooks, it might be the case that your Jupyter Notebook is not actually running the kernel in your (activated!) Anaconda environment (via this answer), but the generic Python3 kernel that only can import packages from your global Anaconda environment.

You can check for this by importing a package that is installed in your global environment (e.g., pandas), while running a notebook:

import pandas
pandas.__file__

If you see something likes this (on Windows), you are indeed running the wrong kernel (as you would expect the packages to be loaded from the activated environments):

'C:\\Users\\<user>\\Anaconda3\\lib\\site-packages\\pandas\\__init__.py'

Therefore, in your Anaconda Prompt, you have to create a new kernel within ipykernel (assuming cenv is your environment of interest):

$ conda activate cenv           # . ./cenv/bin/activate in case of virtualenv
(cenv)$ conda install ipykernel
(cenv)$ ipython kernel install --user --name=<any_name_for_kernel>
(cenv)$ jupyter notebook

Now, in the restarted Jupyter Notebook you can change the kernel via the menu: Kernel > Change kernel > <any_name_for_kernel>

Importing the same package, like pandas, should show the following file path:

'C:\\Users\\<user>\\Anaconda3\\envs\\<cenv>\\lib\\site-packages\\pandas\\__init__.py'

and you should be able to import any package installed in that Anaconda environment.

Thijs Perenboom
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