Installation¶
To install, use the command line:
% pip install bossdata
To upgrade to the latest version:
% pip install bossdata --upgrade
Requirements¶
The following additional pacakges are used by bossdata and will be installed automatically by pip, if necessary:
- requests
- progressbar
- astropy
- fitsio
- numpy
Optional Dependencies¶
The following packages are optional and enable additional functionality. They will not be automatically installed by pip, but will be used when available.
- matplotlib (used by the bossdata.plot module and bossplot script)
Quick Demonstration¶
If you have matplotlib installed, you can quickly test that everything is working with:
bossplot
This should download a small data file for a single spectrum and plot the data in a window. Close the plot window to exit. For more information on bossplot
and other available command-line scripts, see Executable scripts.