Installation Guide¶
Caution
Python Environment
It is highly recommended to prepare a Python environment with the Anaconda or Miniconda distribution and install Arboretum’s dependencies using the conda package manager.
- NumPy
- SciPy
- scikit-learn
- pandas
- dask
- distributed
This avoids complexities in ensuring that libraries like NumPy and SciPy link against an optimized implementation of linear algebra routines.
Install using pip¶
The arboretum package is available from PyPI (Python Package Index), a repository of software for the Python programming language.
Using pip, installing the arboretum package is straightforward:
$ pip install arboretum
Install from source¶
Installing Arboretum from source is possible using following steps:
- clone the Github repository using the git tool:
$ git clone https://github.com/tmoerman/arboretum.git
$ cd arboretum
- build Arboretum using the provided script:
$ ./pypi_build.sh
- install the freshly built Arboretum package using pip:
$ pip install dist/*