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Hi @djherbis,

I hope you are well.

Just to make sure that my PR correctly follow your standards to be reviewed correctly.

Please let me know if you need any further information.

Thank you very much in advance.

Hey have you tried the package manager! we strongly encourage using this before opening a new request for a new package.

https://www.kaggle.com/discussions/product-announcements/532336

Hey have you tried the package manager! we strongly encourage using this before opening a new request for a new package.

https://www.kaggle.com/discussions/product-announcements/532336

Hi @calderjo

Thank you for your message. I was not aware of this package, and it seems very useful. Next time, I will use it first.

About kmodes:
During a competition, as we cannot use internet, I did install kmodes locally using pip. However, for some reasons it was not possible. Therefore, after checking the Kaggle requirements file and seeing that kmodes was not installed, I did create this PR.

Please let me know if we can go ahead with this PR and add kmodes to the Kaggle requirements.

@jvachier i think you might be misunderstanding what the package manager is.

package manager is a way for you to include packages not found in our base image for offline competitions.

you provide a requirement file, and we handle installation.

I recommend that you use this first before opening a PR.

@jvachier i think you might be misunderstanding what the package manager is.

package manager is a way for you to include packages not found in our base image for offline competitions.

you provide a requirement file, and we handle installation.

I recommend that you use this first before opening a PR.

Hi @calderjo,

Thank you for your message.

The package manager is there to install packages offline using pip. It was recently introduced and I was not aware of it.

Let me clarify my previous comment:
Other methods have been previously used to install packages offline using pip. For example,

• https://www.kaggle.com/code/kononenko/pip-install-no-internet
• https://www.kaggle.com/code/samuelepino/pip-installing-packages-with-no-internet
• https://www.kaggle.com/code/narnaoot/installing-packages-without-internet-for-kaggle

Unfortunately, in my case, these methods did not work. As a result, I raised this PR with the associated test.

Next time I participate to a competition, such as https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/child-mind-institute-problematic-internet-use, I am happy to use the package manager.

Please let me know, if we should close this PR.

@jvachier i'm curious were you able to install the package using the package manager, or did you encounter some issues

@jvachier i'm curious were you able to install the package using the package manager, or did you encounter some issues

Hi @calderjo as said, I did not use the package manager for this competition as I did not know about it, and that's why, after using other methods that did not work, I created this PR.

As mentioned in my previous comment, next time I participate to a competition, I will use the package manager.