Installing spectral-cube

Requirements

This package has the following dependencies:

• Python 2.7 or later (Python 3.x is supported)
• Numpy 1.8 or later
• Astropy 1.0 or later
• Bottleneck, optional (speeds up median and percentile operations on cubes with missing data)

Installation

To install the latest stable release, you can type:

pip install spectral-cube

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

python setup.py install

Developer version

If you want to install the latest developer version of the spectral cube code, you can do so from the git repository:

git clone https://github.com/radio-astro-tools/spectral-cube.git
cd spectral-cube
python setup.py install

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/spectral-cube.git