Installing Packages

TileDB Cloud notebook servers include a persistent home directory for you to install custom packages.

TileDB Cloud supports pip, conda , cran, and other methods of installing packages. When installing a package, you should install it in your home directory if you want it persisted after reboots.

Pip

For Python, you can use pip to install packages into your home directory with the --user option.

pip install --user <package>

If a package from pip is installed without the --user flag, it will not be persisted and will not be available upon reboot

Conda

Both conda and mamba are available in the notebook environment to install any available packages. Creating a custom environment in your home directory will allow you to install and persist any packages.

mamba create -n my_env 
mamba activate my_env
mamba install -c conda-forge <package>

If conda install or mamba install is used outside of a custom environment, your packages will not be persisted.

CRAN

R packages can be installed from CRAN by setting the `lib location to the home directory for persistence.

install.packages("package_name", lib="~/R")

If package installations are done without setting the library path to your home directory, it's likely the installed packages will not be persisted.