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PitchInteractiveInc / Phinch

Phinch is an open-source framework for visualizing biological data, funded by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan foundation. This project represents an interdisciplinary collaboration between Pitch Interactive, a data visualization studio in Oakland, CA, and biological researchers at UC Riverside.
http://phinch.org/
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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issue with installation #53

Closed grache closed 8 years ago

grache commented 8 years ago

Hi everyone, I am trying to install phinch on my mac. When I try to compile Phinch code with

coffee -o scripts/ -cw src/

it stalls when doing this step 11:10:05 - compiled /Users/me/Phinch-master/src/zipWorker.coffee

I tried several time but with the same result. Can anyone help me? Thanks Gra

shiltemann commented 8 years ago

Hi, it's a bit confusing, but it doesn't actually stall, but rather the -w option is watch option:

-w, --watch watch scripts for changes and rerun commands

so run it without this flag: (coffee -o scripts/ -c src/ ) and you should see it exits normally :)

hollybik commented 8 years ago

Usually we don't recommend a local installation - a public implementation is hosted at http://phinch.org (hosted on cloud servers), so usually most people go to the website to load their data onto Phinch. Your data doesn't leave your local machine or get uploaded anywhere, since the visualizations use libraries within Google Chrome to prepare the dataset.