Package Installation

To install RascalC, simply clone the Github repository and compile the C++ code (see dependencies below). This is done as follows:

git clone https://github.com/oliverphilcox/RascalC.git
cd RascalC
make

NB: RascalC can be run in various modes by adding compiler flags in the Makefile. See getting-started and main-code for more information.

Once RascalC is installed, see the getting-started and tutorial sections.

Dependencies

RascalC requires the following packages:

C compiler: Tested with gcc 5.4.O
Gnu Scientific Library (GSL): Any recent version
Corrfunc: 2.0 or later
(Optional but encouraged) OpenMP: Any recent version (required for parallelization)

Corrfunc can be installed using pip install corrfunc and is used for efficient pair counting.

For the Python pre- and post-processing we require:

Python: 2.7 or later, 3.4 or later
Numpy: 1.10 or later
(Optional) Healpy: any recent version. (Necessary if using HealPix jackknife regions)

These can be simply installed with pip or conda.