Installation

Requirements

saltshaker requires Python 3.12 or newer. It depends on several core astronomical and scientific packages:

astropy (>=6.1.1)
astroplan (>=0.10.1)
numpy (>=1.26.4)
scipy (>=1.14.0)
pandas (>=2.3.3)
matplotlib (>=3.10.8)

Standard Installation

You can install the package via pip:

pip install saltishaker

Note

While the package is listed on PyPI as saltishaker, it is imported in Python as saltshaker. All examples in this documentation use the saltshaker import.

Alternatively, you can install directly from the GitHub repository:

pip install git+https://github.com/enzoperesafonso/saltshaker.git

Development Installation

If you want to contribute to saltshaker or modify the source code, we recommend using Poetry to manage your environment.

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/enzo-peres-afonso/saltshaker.git
cd saltshaker

Install dependencies (including development tools like pytest, ruff, and sphinx):
```
poetry install
```
Activate the virtual environment:
```
poetry shell
```
Run the tests to ensure everything is working:
```
pytest
```