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Reputation: 51

Installing Cython/Statsmodels

I can not for the life of me figure out how to install the package statsmodels for Python 3. It feels like I've tried everything, but nothing is working.

Goal: import statsmodels in python

I start with:

pip install statsmodels

Main error messages:

Failed bulding wheel for statsmodels.
Cython is required to compile statsmodels from a development branch.
Please install Cython or download a source release of statsmodels.

So I try:

pip install cython

Gives:

Requirement already satisfied: cython in c:users\XXX\appdata\roaming\python\python36\site-packages

I installed cython by installing anaconda. I have tried almost all answers I could find by basic googling. But things just don't seem to be working.

Instead of listing the input\output of what I have tried I now only show the first steps, but let me know if you want to see the output of any commands.

How do I continue from here? Any help is appreciated, I've been trying to fix this for several days now and I'm only getting frustrated.

Right now I'm trying:

easy_install cython

This seemed to work, but afterwards pip install statsmodels didn't work.

Command ... failed with error code 1.

I tried:

git clone https://github.com/statsmodels/statsmodels
cd statsmodels
pip install .

And failed with a bunch of errors.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 4742

Answers (3)

Kevin S
Kevin S

Reputation: 2803

The main statsmodels on PyPI is very old and uses a nonstandard setup. The release candidate for 0.10.0 is out now, and I would strongly recommend you use this one. You can install it using

pip install statsmodels=0.10.0rc2 --pre

It has wheels for all of the major platforms (Win/OSX/Linux), so you shouldn't see issues related to Cython.

Upvotes: 1

user3044431
user3044431

Reputation:

I ran into this same problem lastnight trying to install statsmodels. Finally what worked was installing the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler for Python found here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=44266 then installing statsmodels by doing pip install statsmodels. I had already installed Cython by using pip. Though I do realize that was for Python 2.7. There doesn't seem to be this compiler available for Python 3.

Upvotes: 1

Pierre de Buyl
Pierre de Buyl

Reputation: 7293

To install statsmodels under anaconda, use

conda install statsmodels

The package is available in the repository of anacondata in version 0.8.0 which is the latest on pip as of now.

anaconda is not "just" a Python installation, it also contains the conda package manager that can install pre-built packages from the main repository of anaconda or from other "channels". It is not advisable to install packages that are available from the anaconda channel with pip, in general.

A comment on the issue of Cython here: to use Cython, your computer needs also a "development environment", that is the availability of a C compiler, of the Python development headers, among others. The C compiler must be compatible with the version of Python for which Cython is installed.

Upvotes: 0

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