Finding help

1. In Chapter 1, Ecosystem of Anaconda, we showed that we could go to the link https://docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/user-guide/.
2. After clicking the link, we would see four entries, shown here:

3. We could type conda help to find information about the usages of Conda. In Windows, click All Programs | Anaconda | Anaconda Prompt. In the Prompt, type conda help, as shown here:

4. To find all packages associated with a Conda environment, we could issue the conda list command.
5. Since the number of packages is quite large, a better solution is to generate a text file. We could issue conda list >c:/temp/list.txt:

6. The first several lines from the output file called list.txt are shown:

7. We could write an R program to read this text file:

> x<-read.csv('c:/temp/list.txt',skip=2) 
> head(x) 
X_ipyw_jlab_nb_ext_conf....0.1.0............py36ha9200a3_0 
1...