# STRAW2analysis

All analysis for the STRAW project.

To install:

1. Create a conda virtual environment from the `environment.yml` file.

    ```shell
    cd config
    conda env create --file environment.yml
    conda activate straw2analysis
    ```

    If you have already created this environment, you can update it using:

    ```shell
    conda deactivate
    conda env update --file environment.yml
    conda activate straw2analysis
    ```

   To use this environment in the Jupyter notebooks under `./exploration/`, 
   you can select it under Kernel > Change kernel after running:
   
   ```shell
   ipython kernel install --user --name=straw2analysis
   ```

2. Provide a file called `.env` to be used by `python-dotenv` which should be placed in the top folder of the application 
   and should have the form:
   
   ```
   DB_PASSWORD=database-password
   ```
   
# RAPIDS

To install RAPIDS, follow the [instructions on their webpage](https://www.rapids.science/1.6/setup/installation/). 

Here, I include additional information related to the installation and specific to the STRAW2analysis project.
The installation was tested on Windows using Ubuntu 20.04 on Windows Subsystem for Linux ([WSL2](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install)).

## Custom configuration
### Credentials

As mentioned under [Database in RAPIDS documentation](https://www.rapids.science/1.6/snippets/database/), a `credentials.yaml` file is needed to connect to a database.
It should contain:

```yaml
PSQL_STRAW:
  database: staw
  host: 212.235.208.113
  password: password
  port: 5432
  user: staw_db
```

where`password` needs to be specified as well.

## Possible installation issues
### Missing dependencies for RPostgres

To install `RPostgres` R package (used to connect to the PostgreSQL database), an error might occur:

```text
------------------------- ANTICONF ERROR ---------------------------
Configuration failed because libpq was not found. Try installing:
   * deb: libpq-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, etc)
   * rpm: postgresql-devel (Fedora, EPEL)
   * rpm: postgreql8-devel, psstgresql92-devel, postgresql93-devel, or postgresql94-devel (Amazon Linux)
   * csw: postgresql_dev (Solaris)
   * brew: libpq (OSX)
If libpq is already installed, check that either:
  (i)  'pkg-config' is in your PATH AND PKG_CONFIG_PATH contains a libpq.pc file; or
  (ii) 'pg_config' is in your PATH.
If neither can detect , you can set INCLUDE_DIR
and LIB_DIR manually via:
  R CMD INSTALL --configure-vars='INCLUDE_DIR=... LIB_DIR=...'
--------------------------[ ERROR MESSAGE ]----------------------------
  <stdin>:1:10: fatal error: libpq-fe.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
```

The library requires `libpq` for compiling from source, so install accordingly.

### Timezone environment variable for tidyverse (relevant for WSL2)

One of the R packages, `tidyverse` might need access to the `TZ` environment variable during the installation.
On Ubuntu 20.04 on WSL2 this triggers the following error:

```text
> install.packages('tidyverse')

ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘xml2’
System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate.
Failed to create bus connection: Host is down
Warning in system("timedatectl", intern = TRUE) :
  running command 'timedatectl' had status 1
Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]) :
  namespace ‘xml2’ 1.3.1 is already loaded, but >= 1.3.2 is required
Calls: <Anonymous> ... namespaceImportFrom -> asNamespace -> loadNamespace
Execution halted
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘tidyverse’
```

This happens because WSL2 does not use the `timedatectl` service, which provides this variable.

```bash
~$ timedatectl
System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate.
Failed to create bus connection: Host is down
```

This can be amended by setting the environment variable manually before attempting to install `tidyverse`:

```bash
TZ='Europe/Ljubljana'
```

## Possible runtime issues
### Unix end of line characters

Upon running rapids, an error might occur:

```bash
/usr/bin/env: ‘python3\r’: No such file or directory
```

This is due to Windows style end of line characters. 
To amend this, I added a `.gitattributes` files to force `git` to checkout `rapids` using Unix EOL characters.
If this still fails, `dos2unix` can be used to change them.