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Fred Lawton
5,904 PointsHow to install scikit-learn on OSX?
Currently I have Python 2.7.5 installed in /usr/bin/python.
I would like to install sickit-learn: http://scikit-learn.org/stable/install.html#mac-osx
I've seen various instructions about using brew, pip, etc. Currently, I don't think I have brew or pip installed.
Can someone help provide some instructions?
Note: I would like to keep Python 2.7.5 in its current directory. I'm happy if Python3 is installed in /usr/bin/python3. I don't want a command like brew install python to replace Python 2.7.5; not that it will, but I'm new to it and want to be careful.
2 Answers
Jimmy Hsu
6,511 PointsCheck out Homebrew
You can install by putting this through the terminal:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"
Homebrew/Brew and NPM grants you access to some of the largest libraries of tools you'll ever need.
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherLetting homebrew replace the OS X Python isn't a bad thing. There have, historically, been some missing bits in OS X's Python and homebrew's Python is actually complete. It's the latest Python 2.7.x release and very solid. This will also install pip. You should then be able to install Scikit-learn through pip with no problems (assuming you have all of the dependencies installed too).