Install¶

Below we assume you have the default Python environment already configured on your computer and you intend to install mgc inside of it. If you want to create and work with Python virtual environments, please follow instructions on venv and virtual environments. We also highly recommend conda. For instructions to install this, please look at conda.

First, make sure you have the latest version of pip (the Python package manager) installed. If you do not, refer to the Pip documentation and install pip first.

Install from Github¶

You can manually download mgc by cloning the git repo master version and running the setup.py file. That is, unzip the compressed package folder and run the following from the top-level source directory using the Terminal:

$ git clone https://github.com/neurodata/mgc
$ cd mgc
$ python3 setup.py install

Python package dependencies¶

mgc requires the following packages:

numba
numpy
scipy
scikit-learn

Hardware requirements¶

mgc package requires only a standard computer with enough RAM to support the in-memory operations.

OS Requirements¶

This package is supported for all major operating systems. The following versions of operating systems was tested on Travis CI:

Linux: Ubuntu Xenial 16.04
Windows: Windows Server, version 1803

Testing¶

mgc uses the Python pytest testing package. If you don't already have that package installed, follow the directions on the pytest homepage.