Upgrade spaCy (to a specific version).

spacy_upgrade(
  version = "latest",
  lang_models = NULL,
  ask = interactive(),
  force = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

version

character; spaCy version to install (see details).

lang_models

character; language models to be installed. Defaults en_core_web_sm (English model). A vector of multiple model names can be used (e.g. c("en_core_web_sm", "de_core_news_sm")). A list of available language models and their names is available from the spaCy language models page.

ask

logical; ask whether to proceed during the installation. By default, questions are only asked in interactive sessions.

force

ignore if spaCy/the lang_models is already present and install it anyway.

...

passed on to spacy_install()

Details

The function checks whether a suitable installation of Python is present on the system and installs one via reticulate::install_python() otherwise. It then creates a virtual environment with the necessary packages in the default location chosen by reticulate::virtualenv_root().

If you want to install a different version of Python than the default, you should call reticulate::install_python() directly. If you want to create or use a different virtual environment, you can use, e.g., Sys.setenv(SPACY_PYTHON = "path/to/directory").

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# install the latest version of spaCy
spacy_install()

# update spaCy
spacy_install(force = TRUE)

# install an older version
spacy_install(version = "3.1.0")

# install with GPU enabled
spacy_install(version = "cuda-autodetect")

# install on Apple ARM processors
spacy_install(version = "apple")

# install an old custom version
spacy_install(version = "[cuda-autodetect]==3.2.0")

# install several models with spaCy
spacy_install(lang_models = c("en_core_web_sm", "de_core_news_sm"))


# install spaCy to an existing virtual environment
Sys.setenv(RETICULATE_PYTHON = "path/to/python")
spacy_install()
}