On Windows I run a Command Prompt as administrator to have permission to modify the installed ChimeraX and use
> cd C:\Program Files\ChimeraX-1.2.5\bin
> .\python.exe -m pip install pandas
And then I can use "import pandas" in the ChimeraX shell (menu Tools / General / Shell) without errors.
Or in a Command Prompt that is not run as administrator I run
> cd C:\Program Files\ChimeraX-1.2.5\bin
> .\ChimeraX-console.exe -m pip install pandas --user
and again pandas installs fine and imports in ChimeraX.
Definitely we should add an easy way to do this in ChimeraX without the Command Prompt rigamarole, like a ChimeraX command "pip install pandas". But we don't have that right now. Sadly the Python pip package does not have an API to do installs using a function call -- really poor design. But probably we can work around that.
Tom
Hi Ilse,
ChimeraX distributions include Python so you just want to install pandas into the ChimeraX Python. This involves running the ChimeraX Python and using pip install. Here is how I do that on Mac.
$ ~/Desktop/ChimeraX.app/Contents/bin/python3.8 -m pip install pandas
On Windows or Linux it would be similar. We should have a ChimeraX command to install PyPi packages but don't have that yet.
Tom