conda_envs_quickstart_chime.md

Quick intro to conda envs for chime

https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/tasks/manage-environments.html

Create a folder somewhere to store your conda "recipes" and put the datasci.yml file in it. Open it in a text editor and you'll quickly see what it is and is going to do.

Fire up an Anaconda prompt and navigate to your recipes folder

Now we will create a conda environment from that recipe

conda env create -f datasci.yml 

Activate your new environment

conda activate datasci

# See what packages are installed (it's a bunch)
conda list

Now we'll create another env called chime by cloning datasci

I usually get back into the base conda env

# Back to base
conda deactivate

conda create --name chime --clone datasci

conda activate chime

Now navigate to your chime repo directory and let's install it

pip install .

# Confirm penn_chime installed
conda list

Use penn_chime in multiple ways

You can run their cli app by just being in whatever directory you want to be working in and then

# See their help text
penn_chime -h

# Run using a config file - easiest
penn_chime --file yourconfigfile.cfg

You can also use my sim_chime_scenario_runner.py script.

You can use Jupyter notebooks and do imports of my script and/or imports of penn_chime modules. My script obviously imports such modules.