Basic Setup

Below are the instructions for setting up an environment that will let you work through this documentation.

The processing environment

In these examples, we will run gcmstools from a terminal IPython session in a folder “gcms”, which is located in your home directory. Basic information about using the terminal and IPython is found in Appendix A: Running Code Samples.

home>$ cd gcms

gcms>$ ipython
Python 3.4.1 (default, Oct 10 2014, 15:29:52)
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

IPython 2.3.1 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
?         -> Introduction and overview of IPython's features.
%quickref -> Quick reference.
help      -> Python's own help system.
object?   -> Details about 'object', use 'object??' for extra details.

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Sample Data

A zip archive containing example files is available.