By default, Anaconda environments and their packages reside in ~/.conda in your home folder, and thus count against the limited 2.5GB quota on users' home folders.
Before you go down the path of setting up a virtual environment and populating it with packages, you may want to do something like this, to create a .conda folder in a project space, and then redirect ~/.conda to there instead:
Make a new .conda folder inside a project space:
cd ~/shared_space/nameoftheprojectspace
mkdir .conda
Then, create a symlink from your home folder to the new location:
cd ~
ln -s ~/shared_space/nameoftheprojectspace/.conda ~/.conda
This should let you then create an environment as described inhttps://rce-docs.hmdc.harvard.edu/book/anaconda-python and populate it with the packages you need. if you run out of room to hold your packages, send a request to us to scale up the size of project space.
Before you go down the path of setting up a virtual environment and populating it with packages, you may want to do something like this, to create a .conda folder in a project space, and then redirect ~/.conda to there instead:
Make a new .conda folder inside a project space:
cd ~/shared_space/nameoftheprojectspace
mkdir .conda
Then, create a symlink from your home folder to the new location:
cd ~
ln -s ~/shared_space/nameoftheprojectspace/.conda ~/.conda
This should let you then create an environment as described inhttps://rce-docs.hmdc.harvard.edu/book/anaconda-python and populate it with the packages you need. if you run out of room to hold your packages, send a request to us to scale up the size of project space.