Quick Start

In order to complete an ETRM simulation:

  1. Download Anaconda (version 2.x), read the beginner’s guide here. From the Anaconda site: “Anaconda is a free, easy-to-install package manager, environment manager, Python distribution, and collection of over 720 open source packages with free community support. Hundreds more open source packages and their dependencies can be installed with a simple conda install [packagename]. It’s platform-agnostic, can be used on Windows, OS X and Linux.”
  2. Get git. Read the documentation. Consider GitHub Desktop if you like desktop GUI.
  3. Create an env using these helpful instructions. Conda envs (much like virtual envs) create a python environment with a python executable and install all the packages ETRM needs, isolated from other projects and their dependencies. For example, ETRM uses GDAL, Numpy, Pandas, and a number of other packages. If you have another project (say, using ArcPy), you can have another set of packages with their dependencies and they won’t interfere with your new project. Right click and save the environment.yml from GitHub, use conda env create -f environment.yml. For extra info and how to get started see {official docs](http://conda.pydata.org/docs/index.html) and a “test drive”.
  4. Get PyCharm IDE. Read their quick start guide. Set the project interpreter to your ETRM interpreter (i.e., your new Conda env).
  1. Clone our latest Recharge project from GitHub.
  2. Ready, set, go.