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Conda is an open-source,1 cross-platform,2 language-agnostic package manager and environment management system. It was originally developed to solve package management challenges faced by Python data scientists, and today is a popular package manager for Python and R.34 At first, Anaconda Python distribution was developed by Anaconda Inc.; later, it was spun out as a separate package,5 released under the BSD license.1678910 The Conda package and environment manager is included in all versions of Anaconda, Miniconda, Miniforge11 and Anaconda Repository.12 Conda is a NumFOCUS affiliated project.13

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Footnotes

  1. “Conda”. conda.io. Retrieved 11 June 2019. ↩ ↩2

  2. “Building Conda Packages for Multiple Operating Systems”. Pydannt. 29 January 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2019. ↩

  3. Gorelick, Micha; Ozsvald, Ian (September 2014). High Performance Python: Practical Performant Programming for Humans (1st ed.). O’Reilly Media. p. 370. ISBN 978-1449361594. ↩

  4. Jackson, Joab (5 February 2013). “Python gets a big data boost from DARPA”. networkworld. Retrieved October 30, 2014. ↩

  5. “What’s the difference between Anaconda, conda, and Miniconda?”. FAQ - Bioconda documentation. Retrieved 22 April 2020. ↩

  6. “State of Conda, Oct. 2014”. Pen and Pants. 9 October 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2015. ↩

  7. Tony Ojeda; Sean Patrick Murphy; Benjamin Bengfort; Abhijit Dasgupta (25 September 2014). Practical Data Science Cookbook. Packt Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1783980253. Retrieved 19 March 2015. ↩

  8. Langtangen, Hans Petter (2014). A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python. Springer. ISBN 978-3642549595. Retrieved 19 March 2015. ↩

  9. Yves Hilpisch (11 December 2014). Python for Finance: Analyze Big Financial Data. O’Reilly Media. ISBN 9781491945391. Retrieved 19 March 2015. ↩

  10. “Continuum Analytics Launches Anaconda Server for Enterprise Package Management”. Yahoo Finance. 30 January 2014. Retrieved 19 March 2015. ↩

  11. “Installing conda”. ↩

  12. “Anaconda repository”. anaconda.org. ↩

  13. “NumFOCUS Affiliated Projects”. NumFOCUS. Retrieved 2021-10-25. ↩