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.