Installing Pandas

Pandas is a Python library for data analysis. It has some similarities with the R programming language, which are not coincidental. R is a specialized programming language popular with data scientists. For instance, the core DataFrame object is inspired by R.

How to do it...

On PyPi, the project is called pandas. So, for instance, run either of the following two command:

sudo easy_install -U pandas
pip install pandas

If you are using a Linux package manager, you will need to install the python-pandas project. On Ubuntu, you would do the following:

sudo apt-get install python-pandas

You can also install from source (requires Git):

git clone git://github.com/pydata/pandas.git 
cd pandas 
python setup.py install