Downloading and Installing Stingray

There are currently two ways to install Stingray:

• via conda

• via pip

• from source

Installing via conda

If you manage your Python installation and packages via Anaconda or miniconda, you can install stingray via the conda-forge build:

$ conda install -c conda-forge stingray

That should be all you need to do! Just remember to run the tests before you use it!

Installing via pip

pip-installing Stingray is easy! Just do:

$ pip install stingray

And you should be done! Just remember to run the tests before you use it!

Installing from source (bleeding edge version)

For those of you wanting to install the bleeding-edge development version from source (it will have bugs; you’ve been warned!), first clone our repository on GitHub:

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/StingraySoftware/stingray.git

Now cd into the newly created stingray directory and install the necessary dependencies:

$ cd stingray
$ pip install astropy scipy matplotlib numpy pytest pytest-astropy h5py tqdm

Finally, install stingray itself:

$ pip install -e "."

Installing development environment (for new contributors)

For those of you wanting to contribute to the project, install the bleeding-edge development version from source. First fork our repository on GitHub and clone the forked repository using:

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/<your github username>/stingray.git

Now, navigate to this folder and run the following command to add an upstream remote that’s linked to Stingray’s main repository. (This will be necessary when submitting PRs later.):

$ cd stingray
$ git remote add upstream https://github.com/StingraySoftware/stingray.git

Now, install the necessary dependencies:

$ pip install astropy scipy matplotlib numpy pytest pytest-astropy h5py tqdm

Finally, install stingray itself:

$ pip install -e "."

Test Suite

Please be sure to run the test suite before you use the package, and please report anything you think might be bugs on our GitHub Issues page.

Stingray uses py.test and tox for testing. To run the tests, try:

$ tox -e test

You may need to install tox first:

$ pip install tox

To run a specific test file (e.g., test_io.py), try:

$ cd stingray
$ py.test tests/test_io.py

If you have installed Stingray via pip or conda, the source directory might not be easily accessible. Once installed, you can also run the tests using:

$ python -c 'import stingray; stingray.test()'

or from within a python interpreter:

>>> import stingray
>>> stingray.test()

Documentation

The documentation including tutorials is hosted here. The documentation uses sphinx to build and requires the extensions sphinx-astropy and nbsphinx.

You can build the API reference yourself by going into the docs folder within the stingray root directory and running the Makefile:

$ cd stingray/docs
$ make html

If that doesn’t work on your system, you can invoke sphinx-build itself from the stingray source directory:

$ cd stingray
$ sphinx-build docs docs/_build

The documentation should be located in stingray/docs/_build. Try opening ./docs/_build/index.rst from the stingray source directory.