martinogden / scientific-box

Scientific linux environment with vagrant and chef

Scientific Box

Provision an Ubuntu (12.04) VM using Vagrant and Chef with everything you need to get started with scientific / statistical computing or machine learning, including:

• Python (NumPy, SciPy, SymPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Skikit-learn, IPython)
• GNU Octave

This is particularly useful for OS X, as there are problems installing SciPy using pip and brew.

Usage

First, make sure you have installed VirtualBox and Vagrant.

$ https://github.com/martinogden/scientific-box.git
$ cd scientific-box
$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-berkshelf
$ vagrant up
$ vagrant ssh  # code away!

Note: data in ./scientific-box on the host will be shared with /vagrant on the guest.

Dependencies

• VirtualBox
• Vagrant
• vagrant-berkshelf plugin

Platforms

Tested on host platforms:

• OS X 10.8
• Ubuntu 12.04
• Elementary 0.2b2

Todo

• Write a cookbook for R

Authors

• Martin Ogden

Licence

Copyright © 2013 Martin Ogden

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.