Anaconda installs more than 200 packages and several IDEs. Some of the widely used packages that get installed are: NumPy, pandas, scipy, scikit-learn, matplotlib, seaborn, beautifulsoup4, nltk, and dask.
Packages, which are not installed along with Anaconda, could be installed manually through Conda, Anaconda's package manager. Any package upgradation can also be done through Conda. Conda will fetch the packages from the Anaconda repository, which is huge and has more than 1400 packages. The following commands will install and update packages through conda:
- To install, use conda install pandas
- To update, use conda update pandas
The following IDEs are installed with Anaconda:
- JupyterLab
- Jupyter Notebook
- QTConsole
- Spyder
The IDEs could be launched either through Conda or Anaconda Navigator.
Anaconda Navigator is a GUI that lets you manage environments and packages and launch applications like Jupyter Notebook and Spyder. In essence, the Navigator provides an easy interface without the problems of command-line coding, and it is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS.
As the following screenshot of the Anaconda Navigator shows, Anaconda provides a one-stop place to access Jupyter/Spyder/IPython IDEs for Python as well as RStudio IDE for R: