Install Anaconda
Anaconda is an open data science platform powered by Python. Anaconda comes with distribution of Python and R and includes over 100 of the most popular Python, R and Scala packages for data science.
Use Graphical installer to install Anaconda powered by Python 3.6
Pandas-datareader
pandas-datareader extracts data from various Internet sources into a pandas DataFrame. Docs
Start using pandas-datareader:
import pandas_datareader.data as web
Install latest release version via conda
conda install pandas-datareader
conda install -c anaconda pandas-datareader
Install latest release version via pip
pip install pandas-datareader
Conda
Conda is a package manager, just like pip, is used for updating Anaconda packages.
If you get an error:
conda is not recognized as internal or external command.
For Windows
Go to:
Go to Control Panel\System and Security\System\Advanced System Settings\Environment Variables
and check path values, your user variable should contain
Path=..\Anaconda3\Scripts
Usually it looks like this:
C:Users\user.user\Anaconda3\Scripts
For Mac
Go to .bashrc, or sometimes to .profile, or.bash_profile and make sure PATH is right.
PATH: PATH="/Users/computer_name/anaconda/bin"
Virtual environments with Conda
Whithin you directory in the terminal/shell, where you want to launch virtualenv, type:
conda create -n env python=3.6 anaconda
to activate virtualenv:
source activate env
to install package:
conda install -n env [package]
to deactivate virtualenv:
source deactivate