Installing py earth on Windows with Anaconda for Python 2.7

I experienced problems when I tried to install py-earth with Anaconda for Python 3.5. Basically I needed the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler in the same version as python was compiled, and I didn't want to install Visual Studio. With Python 2.7 it is easier, since Microsoft provides a nice 80 MB installer.

Requirements

• Git
• Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44266
• Anaconda2 for Python 2.7 (which comes with scikit-learn)

Instructions

Just install all requirements above and then open a command prompt as Administrator. Follow the official installing instructions, except for the 'sudo', obviously:

git clone git://github.com/jcrudy/py-earth.git
cd py-earth
python setup.py install

You should see lots of logging messages and in the end:

Finished processing dependencies for py-earth==0.1.0.