Installation
Required dependencies
Optional dependencies
For plotting
matplotlib (3.5 or later) is required to create any plots.
cartopy (0.20 or later) for plotting on maps.
For detecting coords and parsing flag values
cf_xarray (0.7 or later) allows to autodetect coordidate names and rich comparison of abbreviations or names of regions for 2D masks via
mask.cf
.
For faster loading of shapefiles
pyogrio (0.3 or later) allows faster reading of shapefiles. Currently only used for natural earth data (as the other data is loaded reasonanbly fast with fiona).
Instructions
regionmask itself is a pure Python package, but its dependencies are not. The easiest way to get them installed is to use conda. The package is available on the conda-forge channel.
conda install -c conda-forge regionmask cartopy
All required dependencies can be installed with pip. You can thus install regionmask directly:
pip install regionmask
Note, however, that the optional dependency cartopy can be very difficult to install with pip.
Testing
To run the test suite after installing regionmask, install pytest
and run pytest
in the root directory of regionmask.
To install the development version (main), do:
pip install git+https://github.com/regionmask/regionmask