diff --git a/docs_sources/python-ref.Rmd b/docs_sources/python-ref.Rmd
index 6d9d4692..a6bab866 100644
--- a/docs_sources/python-ref.Rmd
+++ b/docs_sources/python-ref.Rmd
@@ -8,13 +8,21 @@ output:
       collapsed: false
     css: custom.css
 ---
+
+```{r message=FALSE}
+message("Current working directory: ", getwd())
+message("Contents of working directory: ", paste(dir(getwd()), collapse = ", "))
+```
+
 ```{r setup, include=FALSE}
 library(reticulate)
 
 knitr::knit_engines$set(python = reticulate::eng_python)
 knitr::opts_knit$set(progress = TRUE, verbose = TRUE, highlight = TRUE)
 reticulate::py_install(c("matplotlib", "scikit-learn", "seaborn"))
-reticulate::py_install("pmlb", pip = TRUE)
+# reticulate::py_install("pmlb", pip = TRUE)
+config <- reticulate::py_config()
+system2(config$python, c("-m", "pip", "install", "--quiet", shQuote("../")))
 
 ```
 
diff --git a/docs_sources/using-python.Rmd b/docs_sources/using-python.Rmd
index 10c81e83..cd7b6460 100644
--- a/docs_sources/using-python.Rmd
+++ b/docs_sources/using-python.Rmd
@@ -2,13 +2,21 @@
 title: "Using PMLB Python interface"
 ---
 
+
+```{r message=FALSE}
+message("Current working directory: ", getwd())
+message("Contents of working directory: ", paste(dir(getwd()), collapse = ", "))
+```
+
 ```{r setup, include=FALSE}
 library(reticulate)
 
 knitr::knit_engines$set(python = reticulate::eng_python)
 knitr::opts_knit$set(progress = TRUE, verbose = TRUE, highlight = TRUE)
 reticulate::py_install(c("matplotlib", "scikit-learn", "seaborn"))
-reticulate::py_install("pmlb", pip = TRUE)
+# reticulate::py_install("pmlb", pip = TRUE)
+config <- reticulate::py_config()
+system2(config$python, c("-m", "pip", "install", "--quiet", shQuote("../")))
 
 ```