Pandas Missing required dependencies ['numpy']

Question

I am currently following a beginners introduction to machine learning. While entering in the command: import pandas as pd in the python shell in terminal, I get an error reading:

ImportError: Missing required dependencies ['numpy'].

I already looked at the other similar question, tried that solution, but still received the same error.

Answer 1

Looks like you might be running on a Mac and perhaps using the default system python. For whatever reason you don't have a complete installation. you have pandas but not numpy. I'm not sure which packages the tutorial you are following uses, but I would recommend installing the Anaconda python distribution as it includes pandas, all its dependencies and much more, including the scikit-learn package often used for machine learning.

If you want to know more about installing a Python environment for machine learning on a Mac, there is a good tutorial on machinelearningmastery.com.

Answer 2

This doesn't have anything to do with incompatibility. As @Peter mentioned, you simply don't have NumPy and should install through Anaconda. Here is the code within pandas that is giving you the error:

# Let users know if they're missing any of our hard dependencies
hard_dependencies = ("numpy", "pytz", "dateutil")
missing_dependencies = []

for dependency in hard_dependencies:
    try:
        __import__(dependency)
    except ImportError as e:
        missing_dependencies.append(dependency)

if missing_dependencies:
    raise ImportError("Missing required dependencies {0}".format(missing_dependencies))
del hard_dependencies, dependency, missing_dependencies

Notice there is nothing here about version.