Can I choose where my conda environment is stored?

Question

Can I change the path /Users/nolan/miniconda/envs/ to another one when creating a virtual environment ? I'd like it to be specific to my project directory. (As we can do with virtualenv)

$conda info -e
Using Anaconda Cloud api site https://api.anaconda.org
# conda environments:
#
_build                   /Users/nolan/miniconda/envs/_build
myen3                    /Users/nolan/miniconda/envs/myen3
nolanemirot              /Users/nolan/miniconda/envs/nolanemirot
root                  *  /Users/nolan/miniconda

Answer 1

You can change the environments directory by editing your .condarc file found in your user directory. Add the following specifying the path to the directory you want:

envs_dirs:
  - /Users/nolan/newpath

Answer 2

If you would like it to be relative to your project directory, use the --prefix flag: https://conda.io/docs/commands/env/conda-env-create.html?highlight=prefix

For example, if you use environment.yml files to define your environment and you want your environment to be created in the venv directory of your project you would use the following:

conda env create -f environment.yml --prefix venv

The conda create command also has the --prefix flag as well: https://conda.io/docs/commands/conda-create.html?highlight=prefix

I don't know if this was available as of the original posting, but it should be available as of Liu Sha's comment, and gets closer to answering the question in regards to "I'd like it to be specific to my project directory".