Problem with spacy_install() in R Studio

[lioramichlin]

Have installed and uninstalled miniconda/anaconda on my computer multiple times. Currently running the latest version of anaconda.

When trying to install spacy into R using spacy_install() I repeatedly get the error "Error: Error 1 occurred installing packages into conda environment spacy_condaenv" and don't know how to fix it.

[amatsuo]

Could you provide sessionInfo() output?

[lioramichlin]

Sure :)

R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows >= 8 x64 (build 9200)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages:
[1] spacyr_1.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] sentimentr_2.6.1 compiler_3.5.2 qdapRegex_0.7.2 tools_3.5.2 bindrcpp_0.2.2 glue_1.3.0 yaml_2.2.0 Rcpp_1.0.0
[9] lexicon_1.1.3 textclean_0.9.3 syuzhet_1.0.4 data.table_1.12.0 rlang_0.3.1 bindr_0.1.1

[amatsuo]

Thanks.

I am not sure what exactly is the issue, but let's try the following. In a command prompt (not in R):

1. conda remove --name spacy_condaenv --all # remove an existing environment
2. conda create --name spacy_condaenv python=3.6 # this create a new conda environment
3. activate spacy_condaenv # activate the virtual enviroment you have just created
4. pip install --ignore-installed --upgrade spacy # install spacy in the envronment
5. python -m spacy download en # install a langmodel

If you run through all of them without an error, you should be able to spacy_initialize().

[lioramichlin]

Thank you for your help!

I got some errors at step 4:

Failed building wheel for ujson
Failed building wheel for cytoolz 
Command "C:\Users\Liora\Anaconda3\envs\spacy_condaenv\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\Liora\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-v5qce9t8\\cytoolz\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\Liora\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-p30pkxf3\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\Liora\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-v5qce9t8\cytoolz\

[amatsuo]

Do you have a proper version of Visual C++? For Windows systems, you have to install it before compiling things.

https://spacy.io/usage/#source-windows

This might also informative:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43370851/failed-building-wheel-for-spacy/44872209

[lioramichlin]

Ah no, I somehow missed that requirement!

Thank you so much for your help! After I installed that, spacy_install() worked directly from R. :D

[Siobhan1986]

I tried the above steps, but when I run spacy_initialize in R, I get the following error:
Error in py_run_file_impl(file, local, convert) :
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'spacy'

Any ideas what I should do?