pycaret FAQ's - commonly asked questions

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pycaret installation issues

• Installing with Anaconda and pip
  • Unable to install pycaret using either Anaconda and pip #1260
• Visual C++ error
  • Cant Install Pycaret on Windows, Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0 or greater is required #1254
  • Error during SetUp() #1321
• Installing on Kaggle
  • [BUG] Unable to install pycaret in Kaggle Notebook  #1710
• Installing the full version
  • [INSTALL]: Unable to install pip install pycaret[full] in clean python 3.8 conda environment. #3293
  • [INSTALL]: Installing pycaret[full] #3330
• Installation issues on Ubuntu
  • [DOC] Failed building wheel for ciso8601 #2342
  • Unable to install pycaret on Ubuntu OS! #1187
  • NLP setup functions fails (locally, also on colab) [Numpy issue - non-LTS version (v22.x) of Ubuntu] #2441
• numba issues
  • Installation Error: failed building wheel for lightgbm and numba #841
  • Installation Issue with numba #1346
• bottleneck issues
  • [BUG] Could not build wheels for bottleneck which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly #1461
• python version >= 3.9
  • Installation Error with Python 3.9 #1167
  • [BUG] installation error with Python 3.10 #2381
• Installing on Mac
  • [DOC]: Apple Silicon M1 installation guide #3307
  • Help installing pycaret 2.3 on Mac #1386
  • Mac OS pycaret installation #2197
  • [INSTALL]: Fail Encountered error while try to install Numpy (Mac) #2989
  • [INSTALL]: error: subprocess-exited-with-error + LightGBM dependency issue #3378
  • [INSTALL]: AttributeError: module 'numpy' has no attribute 'float'. #3322
• Google Colab
  • [INSTALL]: Missing optional dependency 'Jinja2' #2490
• Time Series Package
  • Cannot import name 'TimeSeriesExperiment' from 'pycaret.internal.pycaret_experiment' #3018
  • [Time Series Package Installation] No module named 'pycaret.internal.pycaret_experiment' #1851
  • Error while installing pycaret-ts-alpha -U #2307
  • Prophet Installation: Issue installing PyCaret  #962 (comment)

Environment Specific Issues

Google Colab

• [BUG]: Plots not showing by default on Google Colab #2532

Logs

• Disable logging output in Jupyter notebooks. #2440

pycaret crashing

• MemoryError
  • PyCaret Crashes Google Colab with Large Dataset and feature engineering[BUG] #1259
  • MemoryError #1297

setup function issues

• Handling High Cardinality Features
  • Categorical data with too many levels stops setup() without throwing an error #1352

Looking under the hood

• Extracting preprocessed data
  • How to save clean/pre-processed data? #1287
• Extracting all internal global variables

Customization

• Adding custom metrics
  • Support for Custom Metrics in "check_metric" #880

Loading already built models later

• [BUG]: Loaded Model not working  #3357

Optional Dependencies

• catboost installation
  • [BUG] ValueError: Estimator catboost not available. Please see docstring for list of available estimators. #1262
• lightgbm installation
  • OSError: [WinError 193] 1% is not a valid win32 application #1335
  • [INSTALL]: error: subprocess-exited-with-error + LightGBM dependency issue #3378

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@ngupta23 Just saw this. Excellent initiative.