Xana 0.0.9

Analysis software for XPCS, XSVS and SAXS data.

Install Xana

A Fortran compiler and f2py (now part of numpy) are required build python modules from fortran routines during installation. If the installation fails due to a missing compiler see point 3.

1. Install Xana using pip:

   pip install Xana
   

2. Install most recent Xana version from GitHub:

   git clone https://github.com/reiserm/Xana.git
   cd Xana
   pip install .
   

   or use pip install -e . for editable installation. Then you can update Xana by executing git pull from within the Xana directory.

3. If a Fortran compiler is not already installed, try

   • Linux: apt install gfortran
   • MacOSX: brew install gcc
   • On Windows it is a little more complicated. A possible way to install a FORTRAN compiler is shown link1 or link2.

4. Additional remarks on the installation on OSX:

   • If installing Xana fails, it might help to unset the following environment variables: unset LDFLAGS and unset SHELL then pip install Xana.

Example Data

An example XPCS dataset can be downloaded from Xana_example. The repository contains

• Example XPCS data measured with 100nm (diameter) SiO2 nanoparticles dispersed in a glycerol-water mixture.
• A mask of the detector, i.e., a 2D array where bad or broken pixels are 0 and others are 1.
• A tutorial Jupyter notebook.

Use

git clone https://github.com/reiserm/Xana_example.git
tar xzf ./Xana_example/xpcs_data.tgz

to download and unpack the data.