Installation

HiMaLAYAS is a Python package distributed under the BSD 3-Clause License. You can install from PyPI or from source.

Install From PyPI

pip install himalayas

Install From Source

git clone https://github.com/himalayas-base/himalayas.git
cd himalayas
pip install .

For development, use an editable install instead:

pip install -e .

Verify Installation

import himalayas
print(himalayas.__version__)

Optional Dependencies

HiMaLAYAS works without optional dependencies. The packages below are optional and control performance or text processing behavior.

Package	Purpose	Behavior if missing
fastcluster (speed extra)	Faster hierarchical linkage when optimal_ordering=False.	Falls back to SciPy linkage.
nltk (text extra)	Improved tokenization/lemmatization for label_mode="compressed".	Falls back to regex-based tokenization.

Install optional packages as needed:

pip install "himalayas[speed]"
pip install "himalayas[text]"