Installation

Hydrostats is freely available on the Python Package index repository (PyPI). It can be installed with the following command using either pip, virtualenv, or Anaconda:

pip install hydrostats

The extension is also available through conda package management system. It can be installed with:

conda install -c conda-forge hydrostats

When installing hydrostats on Mac OSX operating system, you may get the following error when trying to run python scripts using hydrostats:

**RuntimeError**: Python is not installed as a framework. The Mac OS X backend will not be able
to function correctly if Python is not installed as a framework. See the Python documentation for
more information on installing Python as a framework on Mac OS X. Please either reinstall Python
as a framework, or try one of the other backends.

If this happens, you will need to manually change the backend for use in your IDE. This can be done by running the following commands in the terminal:

touch ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc  # Create a file called matplotlibrc

Then add the following snippet of text to the file you created using vim, nano, or the text editor of your choice:

backend: TkAgg  # or whatever backend you would like to use

Then save and close the document.

For more information about matplotlib backends, read here