Solution then

[JoeTorino]

Is there a way then to fix this issue? I installed the spacy library as you suggested by using conda install -c conda-forge spacy and it worked. Unfortunately I still automatically create a link when I download NLP languages._

[amatsuo]

Hello,

I am not sure what exactly is the issue. Could you elaborate a bit more?

In particular, what do you mean by

I still automatically create a link when I download NLP languages.

[JoeTorino]

Hi,

Sorry I have resolved the issue, when I downloaded the nlp languages I wanted spacy to work with the automatic link that registers when you download the languages was not created.

e.g.

"python -m spacy download en Result: “Download successful but linking failed” python -m spacy download it Result: “Download successful but linking failed”

Creating a shortcut link for 'en' didn't work (maybe you don't have admin permissions?), but you can still load the model via its full package name: nlp = spacy.load('{name}') "

I ran the command prompt as an administrator and the link between spacy and the downloaded language "library/directory" was created in the end. Now everything seems to be working.

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Da: Aki Matsuo notifications@github.com Inviato: martedì 3 luglio 2018 13:47 A: quanteda/spacyr Cc: JoeTorino; Author Oggetto: Re: [quanteda/spacyr] Solution then (#123)

Hello,

I am not sure what exactly is the issue. Could you elaborate a bit more?

In particular, what do you mean by

I still automatically create a link when I download NLP languages.

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[amatsuo]

It is a bit confusing situation. Linking failure usually happens when your account does not have a sufficient privilege. What spaCy does when installing the model with an abbreviated name is first to download a model, then create a symlink to it. If you cannot write in the folder where the symlink will be placed, the error you saw occurs.

I believe you can still initialize spacy with the model's long name. For example, to load the standard English model, you can enter:

spacy_initialize("en_core_web_sm")

See: https://spacy.io/usage/models

Another possible solution is to use conda environment using spacy_install where you don't need an admin privilege (but it's not available for Windows...).