Anaconda and Jupyter Notebook

Install and Configure Anaconda

Install Anaconda

• Anaconda can be downloaded from Anaconda’s website. It has both Linux and Windows versions
• install Anaconda

  bash *.sh
  

• After installation, set the default python3 version by adding the following code to “.bashrc”. Then restart the connection. The default “.bashrc” will be changed for Anaconda

  # added by Anaconda3 4.0.0 installer
  export PATH="/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/bin:$PATH"
  
  

• install modules

  conda list # check installed modules
  conda install netCDF4
  

• update
  conda update anaconda

• create an environment
  conda create -n py35 python=3.5 anaconda

• activate and use the created environment
  source activate py35

• deactivate an environment
  source deactivate py35

Jupyter Notebook

start Jupyter Notebook

# general start 
jupyter notebook

# in background
jupyter notebook &> /dev/null &

# check opened notebook
jupyter notebook list

# close jupyter notebook
kill $(pgrep jupyter)

add extensions to Jupyter Notebook

Jupyter nbextensions

# install the nbextensions
pip install jupyter_contrib_nbextensions
# install js
jupyter contrib nbextension install --user
# enable nbextensions
jupyter nbextension enable codefolding/main

nbconvert for converting “ipython” to “pdf”

sudo apt-get install pandoc
git clone https://github.com/jupyter/nbconvert.git
cd nbconvert
pip install -e .
# test nbconvert
pip install nbconvert[test]
py.test --pyargs nbconvert