Installation

FilFinder can be installed via pip:

>>> pip install fil_finder 

To install from the repository, run the following from within the repository folder:

>>> pip install -e . 

Quickest way to get FilFinder working

The easiest/quickest way to ensure FilFinder is installed along with all of the dependencies is to use the Anaconda distribution.

Install the dependencies using:

>>> conda install --yes numpy scipy matplotlib astropy scikit-image networkx 

This will install all of the newest releases of those packages. FilFinder can then be installed as explained above.

Package Dependencies

Requires:

• numpy

• matplotlib

• astropy

• scipy

• scikits-image

• networkx

Optional:

• radio-beam

• spectral-cube

Contributing

We welcome any user feedback on FilFinder’s performance. If you find an issue with the code, or would like to request additional features, please raise an issue in the repository or send me an email at the address on this page.

We also welcome and encourage contributions to the code base! We want this package to evolve into a tool developed for the community, by the community.