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## 2. Sasmodels Setup

## 2.1. Sasmodels Installation

Sasmodels can be installed using a simple pip installation:

    # Won't work yet! For now follow the developer instructions below.
    $ pip install sasmodels

There are a number of dependent python packages which need to be installed separately:

    numpy
    scipy
    opencl (for speed if your system has OpenCL drivers)
    tinycc (windows only, if no C compiler and no OpenCL)

When using sasmodels to fit data:

    sasview (for loading data)
    bumps (for fitting)
    matplotlib (for displaying results)

For development and testing it is handy to have some additional packages:

    nose (for testing)
    xmlrunner (for testing)
    matplotlib (for showing models)
    docutils (for showing model docs)
    sphinx (for building docs)
    wx ([optional] for adjusting parameters interactively)

Developer Installation

Developers will need to clone the sasmodels reposistory from github:

    $ git clone https://github.com/sasview/sasmodels.git

or if you have a github account:

    $ git clone git@github.com:sasview/sasmodels.git

Sasmodels can be run in-place by including the sasmodels directory on the python path. There are numerous ways to do this which will not be outlined here. It will be easiest to install the package in “develop” mode using:

    $ cd sasmodels
    $ python setup.py develop

This will allow you to edit the files in the package and have the changes show up immediately in python the next time you load your program.

Docs are built by changing into the doc directory and typing:

    $ make clean html

The model figure generation is controlled by a environment variables:

    # Cache figures in /tmp to avoid rebuilding after "clean" (default is none)
    SASMODELS_BUILD_CACHE=/tmp/sascache_$(shasum genmodels.py | cut -f1 -d" ")

    # Specify the number of figures that can be built in parallel, with
    # a value of zero indicating one per cpu (default is one per cpu).
    # Don't use too large a value since it won't help (sasmodels already
    # uses all available processors when calculating a model) and it may
    # overwhelm the GPU if you have one.
    SASMODELS_BUILD_CPUS=4