Installation instructions

Dependencies

PEER depends on a small number of freely downloadable pieces of software:

• CMake 2.8 or later
• R 2.10 or later (optional: needed for building the R package)
• Python 2.5 or later (optional: needed for building the Python package)
• scipy
• numpy
• SWIG 2.0 or later

Building and installing

The PEER installation tree is based on cmake. To install PEER, first create a target directory for the build tree

mkdir build

Then go to the build directory and call CMake

cd build

cmake ./..

Finally, compile and install PEER

make

make install

Building the R package

To build the R package, you need to pass an additional argument to CMake: -DBUILD_R_PACKAGE=1. The full sequence of build commands needed is then as follows:

mkdir build

cd build

cmake ./..

cmake -DBUILD_R_PACKAGE=1 ./..

make

make install

NOTE! You need SWIG 2.0 or later to build the R package. Building will fail with earlier SWIG versions. At the time of writing SWIG 1.x is still the one made available by default on many Linux distributions, so be sure to check the version.

Building peer on OS X

By default, peer is not built as an universal binary on OS X. This can be easily changed by adding the following configuration parameter to CMake: -DBUILD_UNIVERSAL=1. This will cause peer to be built as an Intel 32/64 bit binary. For more control over the included architectures, edit the top-level CMakeLists.txt file in the project.

Troubleshooting and further details

• Installing peer binaries. If make is called with the install flag, the standard behaviour is to install a peer binary and the peer C++ library to the system-wide targets. Use cmake ./.. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/my_software/peer or equivalent to specify your own build target.
• Python module. The python module is not affected by CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX. Instead, cmake tries to build the python module and installs it using the python version which is in the path when using the command python. You can specify your own python binary by editing CMakeLists.txt. The python interface requires a recent numpy version.
• R module. TODO: Matias