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    "# Installation"
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    "## anaconda (recommended)\n",
    "\n",
    "The easiest way to install **scikit-rf** is to first install \n",
    "[anaconda](http://continuum.io/downloads), a binary package manager for python modules. Once anaconda is setup you can install scikit-rf by entering the following into a terminal (do not forget the `-c conda-forge` option):\n",
    "\n",
    "    conda install -c conda-forge  scikit-rf"
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    "## pip\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "Using the [Python Package Index (PyPi)](https://pypi.org/), you can install **scikit-rf** using:\n",
    "\n",
    "    pip install scikit-rf"
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    "## git\n",
    "\n",
    "The bleeding-edge development version of **scikit-rf** may be installed from our [github page](https://github.com/scikit-rf/scikit-rf). You can use git directly, or download a zipfile.\n",
    "\n",
    "    git clone git@github.com:scikit-rf/scikit-rf.git\n",
    "    cd scikit-rf\n",
    "    python setup.py install"
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    "## Optional Modules\n",
    "\n",
    "Some features of scikit-rf won't be available until you install additional\n",
    "modules. You can install these using conda or pip."
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    "### Instrument Control\n",
    "\n",
    "To use the vi module, you must install all of its dependencies. This can be done\n",
    "with\n",
    "\n",
    "$ pip install scikit-rf[visa]\n",
    "\n",
    "which will install the following:\n",
    "\n",
    "- [pyvisa](https://pyvisa.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)\n",
    "- [pyvisa-py](https://pyvisa.readthedocs.io/projects/pyvisa-py/en/latest/)"
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    "<div class=\"alert alert-warning\">\n",
    "    Warning about instrument communications\n",
    "\n",
    "    The above should be enough to communicate with many instruments. However,\n",
    "    some of us have had difficult to resolve issues with certain instrument\n",
    "    configurations that require particular setups. For example, to communicate\n",
    "    with Keysight's N5227B PNA over GPIB, we had to install the \n",
    "    <a href=\"https://www.keysight.com/us/en/lib/software-detail/computer-software/io-libraries-suite-downloads-2175637.html\">Keysight IO Libraries Suite</a> \n",
    "\n",
    "    When using the virtual instrument module, you have the option of specifying\n",
    "    the backend that PyVISA uses to communicate with instruments. By default,\n",
    "    this is PyVISA-py, the fully Python VISA implementation, but in the case\n",
    "    above with the Keysight Analyzer, we had to specify the exact .dll of the\n",
    "    VISA driver. More information can be found\n",
    "    [here](https://pyvisa.readthedocs.io/en/latest/advanced/backends.html) on\n",
    "    VISA backends, but if you have issues, please submit a detailed bug report!\n",
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    "### Excel file export\n",
    "\n",
    "*   xlrd\n",
    "*   xlwt http://www.python-excel.org/ - for xls reading/writing"
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