Cannot setup flotilla on Windows?

[CinchBlue]

Hi,

I'm currently trying to install flotilla from scratch, but I cannot appear to use any part of it--having a more in-depth tutorial for users (especially from Windows--activate doesn't seem to work in cmd.exe or the bash clone) would be advised.

While I have managed to install the environment, it's not very clear about how to jump from the setup of the environment to actually running an iPython app--in fact, I don't know what iPython is. I'm working with a small bioinformatics group at my university, but we use R and we don't really know much about Python. Having a tutorial especially for people that are inexperienced with these technologies to ease the transition for those that do not incorporate them in their own workflows/methodologies would be quite helpful.

[olgabot]

You're right - we're very limited in our ability to debug Windows machines,
and I apologize for that. If you have the time, we would greatly appreciate
your experience in text as a tutorial to help others, since you're the
exact audience that would benefit from it.

For IPython, I believe if you have installed Anaconda, there should be an
IPython exe file that you can double-click and you should see a window in
your browser that looks like this:

[image: Встроенное изображение 1]

From here, you can navigate to a folder of your choice, and start a
notebook by clicking New>Python which should get you a document that looks
like this:

[image: Встроенное изображение 2]

From here, you can start typing any python code and execute the cell with
"Shift+Enter".

Hope that helps!
Olga

On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 5:54 PM VermillionAzure [email protected]
wrote:

Hi,

I'm currently trying to install flotilla from scratch, but I cannot appear
to use any part of it--having a more in-depth tutorial for users
(especially from Windows--activate doesn't seem to work in cmd.exe or the
bash clone) would be advised.

While I have managed to install the environment, it's not very clear about
how to jump from the setup of the environment to actually running an
iPython app--in fact, I don't know what iPython is. I'm working with a
small bioinformatics group at my university, but we use R and we don't
really know much about Python. Having a tutorial especially for people that
are inexperienced with these technologies to ease the transition for those
that do not incorporate them in their own workflows/methodologies would be
quite helpful.

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