easylink 0.1.22

Research repository for the EasyLink ER ecosystem project.

EasyLink is a framework that allows users to build and run highly configurable entity resolution (ER) pipelines.

Supported Python versions: 3.11, 3.12

Installation

There are a few things to install in order to use this package:

• Install singularity.

  You may need to request it from your system admin. Refer to https://docs.sylabs.io/guides/4.1/admin-guide/installation.html. You can check if you already have singularity installed by running the command singularity --version. For an existing installation, your singularity version number is printed.

• Install conda.

  We recommend miniforge. You can check if you already have conda installed by running the command conda --version. For an existing installation, a version will be displayed.

• Install easylink, python and graphviz in a conda environment.

  Option 1 - Install from PyPI with pip:

  $ conda create --name easylink -c conda-forge python=3.12 graphviz 'gcc<14' -y
  $ conda activate easylink
  $ pip install easylink

  Option 2 - Build from source with pip:

  $ conda create --name easylink -c conda-forge python=3.12 graphviz 'gcc<14' -y
  $ conda activate easylink
  $ pip install git+https://github.com/ihmeuw/easylink.git

Documentation

You can view documentation at https://easylink.readthedocs.io/en/latest/