Installing¶
HelioPy is built on the Python programming language. The easiest way to install Python with the various required scientific python modules is to use Anaconda. Installation instructions can be found here.
The minimum supported version of python is python 3.6.
Once you have a Python distribution installed, HelioPy can be installed using either conda:
conda install -c conda-forge heliopy
or pip:
pip install heliopy
Module requirements¶
Each module has a set of dependencies that are required for that module to
be used. To automatically install dependencies for a specific module, use
pip install heliopy[modname]
, e.g. for the ‘data’ module:
pip install heliopy[data]
Alternatively, to install all of the optional dependencies use:
pip install heliopy[all]
In addition, there are the following optional requirements that add extra functionality to HelioPy.
HDF file reader/writer¶
Saving data to hdf files for quicker access requires the PyTables python package. (see Speeding up file import for more information)
Installing from source¶
The latest source code is available at https://github.com/heliopython/heliopy/. To install from source follow these steps:
Install git
git clone https://github.com/heliopython/heliopy.git
cd heliopy
pip install .
This will install HelioPy from source.