Download and installation

Requirements

MARIO has been tested on macOS and Windows.

To run MARIO, a couple of things are needed:

1. Being in love with Input-Output :-)

2. The Python programming language, version 3.7 or higher

3. A number of Python adds-on packages

4. For some functionalities a solver may needed (optional)

5. MARIO software itself

Recommended installation method

The easiest way to make MARIO software working is to use the free conda package manager which can install the current and future MARIO depencies in an easy and user friendly way.

To get conda, download and install “Anaconda Distribution” . Between differnet options for running python codes, we strongly suggest, Spyder, which is a free and open source scientific environment written in Python, for Python, and designed by and for scientists, engineers and data analysts.

You can install mario using pip or from source code. It is suggested to create a new environment by running the following command in the anaconda prompt

conda create -n mario python=3.8

If you create a new environment for mario, to use it, you need to activate the mario environment each time by writing the following line in Anaconda Prompt

conda activate mario

Now you can use pip to install mario on your environment as follow:

pip install mariopy

You can also install from the source code!

IMPORTANT NOTE: Pandas version 2.0 has recently been released, presenting major changes conflicting with MARIO. To overcome these issue, just install a previous version of Pandas as follows:

pip install pandas==1.3.5