Re: [Solution] Point octave to anaconda python (Mac)

[Colin Macdonald]

On 2018-08-20 02:06 PM, CdeMills wrote:
> > It would be *great* if someone can test all this and document it here:
> >
> > https://github.com/cbm755/octsympy/wiki/Notes-on-macOS-installation
>
> Well, for Anaconda, things are detailed here:
> https://uoa-eresearch.github.io/eresearch-cookbook/recipe/2014/11/20/conda/
>
> So it would go as follows:
>
>      conda create -n yourenvname python=x.x anaconda
>      source activate yourenvname
>      conda install -n yourenvname sympy
>     octave
>
> Regards

So which is "better"?  Get the conda thing to pull in sympy?  Or use pip 
within the conda environment?

In the conda version do you really have to activate *before* doing 
`conda install -n yourenvname sympy`?

I would've thought these instructions look like this:

- - - - - - - - - - -

Does this one time
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get "conda"
conda create -n yourenvname python=x.x anaconda  [?? link to above 
article for what to use for x.x]
conda install -n yourenvname sympy


Every time you want to run Octave
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source activate yourenvname   [?? does it matter what directory I'm in?]
octave
pkg load symbolic
syms x