How to upgrade scikit-learn package in anaconda

Question

I am trying to upgrade package of scikit-learn from 0.16 to 0.17. For that I am trying to use binaries from this website: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#scikit-l

Answer 1

Updating a Specific Library - scikit-learn:

Anaconda (conda):

conda install scikit-learn

Pip Installs Packages (pip):

pip install --upgrade scikit-learn

Verify Update:

conda list scikit-learn

It should now display the current (and desired) version of the scikit-learn library.

For me personally, I tried using the conda command to update the scikit-learn library and it acted as if it were installing the latest version to then later discover (with an execution of the conda list scikit-learn command) that it was the same version as previously and never updated (or recognized the update?). When I used the pip command, it worked like a charm and correctly updated the scikit-learn library to the latest version!

Hope this helps!

More in-depth details of latest version can be found here (be mindful this applies to the scikit-learn library version of 0.22):

• Release Highlights for scikit-learn 0.22