Installing radio-beam

Requirements

This package has the following dependencies:

• Python 3.6 or later

• Numpy 1.8 or later

• Astropy 1.0 or later

Installation

To install the latest stable release, you can type:

pip install radio-beam

or you can download the latest tar file from PyPI and install it using:

pip install -e .

Developer version

If you want to install the latest developer version of the radio-beam code, you can do so from the git repository:

git clone https://github.com/radio-astro-tools/radio-beam.git
cd radio-beam
pip install -e .

You may need to add the --user option to the last line if you do not have root access. You can also install the latest developer version in a single line with pip:

pip install git+https://github.com/radio-astro-tools/radio-beam.git

Installing into CASA

Installing packages in CASA is fairly straightforward. The process is described here. In short, you can do the following:

First, we need to make sure pip is installed. Start up CASA as normal, and type:

CASA <1>: from setuptools.command import easy_install

CASA <2>: easy_install.main(['--user', 'pip'])

Now, quit CASA and re-open it, then type the following to install radio-beam:

CASA <1>: import pip

CASA <2>: pip.main(['install', 'radio-beam', '--user'])