echidna

A limit setting and spectrum fitting tool.

Documentation

Sphinx based documentation is available in the docs directory. To build HTML documentation,

cd docs
make html

Output is placed in doc/_build/html. This documentation is built using the napoleon extension to sphinx, which allows the google style comments.

Note: After updating code be sure to run in the base directory

sphinx-apidoc -f -H echidna -o docs echidna/
cd docs
make html

Software Requirements

The software and corresponding version numbers required to run echidna are listed in requirements.txt. To install all packages using pip run

sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

Running echidna

Example scripts are located in the echidna/scripts/ folder. To run example scripts you must set your python path to

export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$(pwd)

from the echidna base directory. Details on how to run individual scripts can be found in their respective documentation.

Testing

To test the code is working as expected run

python -m unittest discover echidna/test/