conda doesn't support pip install e .

[usmansohail]

I am trying to install spinningup, but the instructions say to use a conda environment. However, directly after this, it says to use pip install e . However, it seems that this only installs it to the directory spinningup is in, it does not install it to the virtual environment. For my project, I would like to avoid putting all my work in a copy of the spinningup repo. How should I proceed with conda?

[etendue]

Did you miss the hyphen?

pip install -e .

[usmansohail]

I tried it with both. I missed the hyphen when typing up the problem.

[colllin]

@usmansohail — Were you in the top-level of the project directory when you tried pip install -e .? I apologize — I misread your question. In order to pip install something into your conda environment, it looks like you need to both activate your conda environment and conda install pip within that environment: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41060382/using-pip-to-install-packages-to-anaconda-environment

If your question is about "how to install spinningup as a package in another project", then I think you just want something more like pip install -e path/to/spinningup, or potentially you could also just install via GitHub url if you don't intend to modify your local copy of spinningup.