Installing

TLDR

$ python3 -m venv env
$ source env/bin/activate
$ pip3 install git+https://github.com/sankhaMukherjee/financeMacroFactors.git

Detailed Installation

This is the repository is meant to be used for installing the financeMacroFactors package. A wheel dstribution of this package is present in the dist folder and may be installed within your virtual enviroonment.

$ pip3 install financeMacroFactors-<version>-py3-none-any.whl

Note that the dist folder is not included within this repo because the package might become excessively large. You will need do clone the repository and build the package yourself on your system.

Alternatively, since git allows you to install packages directly from Github. Consider doing the following within your virtual environment:

$ pip3 install git+https://github.com/sankhaMukherjee/financeMacroFactors.git

Building from source

You may wish to make customize this package for your own use. For that, you need to build the system:

  • Clone this repo to your computer

  • Install a virtual enviromnent, and istall the required packages

  • Buid the system

A Makefile has been provided for aiding with this process. The following commands should allow you do do the following

  • make grantPermission: grants execute permission to all shell scripts in the [bin](../master/bin) folder

  • make clean: clean unwanted and temporary files that are generated

  • make build: This will allow you to build Wheel packages for your system