SnapVX

For more information, please visit the SnapVX website at snap.stanford.edu/snapvx.

IMPORTANT LINKS

• Source code repo: https://github.com/snap-stanford/snapvx
• HTML user documentation: http://snap.stanford.edu/snapvx/doc/index.html
• Developer documentation: https://github.com/snap-stanford/snapvx/developerDoc/Documentation.pdf
• Issue Tracker: https://github.com/snap-stanford/snapvx/issues

DEPENDENCIES

The required dependencies to build SnapVX are NumPy >= 1.6.1, Scipy >= 0.9, CVXPY >= 0.3.9, and Snap.py >= 1.2.

INSTALLATION

1. Download the latest release here.

2. Uncompress the snapvx-*.tar.gz file.

    tar zxvf snapvx-0.3.tar.gz
   

3. Run setup.py install from inside the top-level directory.

    cd snapvx-0.3
    python setup.py install
   

4. Test the installation. The included unit tests will test basic functionality to ensure that SnapVX and its dependencies are working correctly.

    cd Tests
    chmod u+x test_basic.sh
    ./test_basic.sh
   

Note: to run SnapVX locally, without installing it system-wide, just run setup.py with the --user flag.

USAGE

SnapVX is used by simply writing

import snapvx

in the Python file. See the included Examples/ directory for use cases and syntax.

DEVELOPMENT

Please consult the developer doc for ways to contribute code, documentation, test cases and general improvments to SnapVX.

CONTACT

Please file bug reports at github.com/snap-stanford/snapvx. We also encourage you to sign up for the SnapVX mailing list to stay up-tp-date with the newest features and releases. For any other questions, comments, or concerns, please contact David Hallac.