enviroment install failed

[Sunyp-IM]

Dear authors,

I tried to run the tutorial but get stuck in the environment install step. I ran the following command as guided:

conda env create -f sc_tutorial_environment.yml

During this process was running, the memory of my computer was gradually used up until the process was killed. My computer has a RAM of 16 G, which I thought should be large enough for dealing with most general computation problems. So I wonder what kind of computer configuration is needed to run this tutorial. And is there something wrong with my operation?

Best regards

[LuckyMD]

Hi @Sunyp-IM,

You were just installing the environment and not running any of the notebooks with the conda env create command. This is suggests that you do not have enough free memory to install conda packages. This has little to do with the tutorial itself. You can try to use the docker image instead if you cannot install the packages, but I assume the tutorial itself will not run either if you cannot install the packages. I have run the tutorial on a 16GB laptop... but whether or not it will run on this depends on whether you have other processes taking up your memory and how big the dataset you are using is.