Installation

How to download and install the toolbox.

1. First, make sure you have MATLAB installed on your computer. You will need MATLAB R2014a or newer.
2. Then you will need to download the toolbox. There are two ways to do this.
3. Download the toolbox as a zipped file, https://github.com/LightingResearchCenter/circadian/archive/master.zip. * Unzip the file. * Rename the folder from circadian-master to circadian * Move the folder to your desired location, such as your MATLAB userpath. Ex. C:\Users\yourUserName\Documents\MATLAB
4. Fork the repository from GitHub to your own account and then clone it to your computer. * If you are unfamiliar with this process you can find instructions here, https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo. * Make sure you are using the master branch, don't worry this is the default branch.
5. Once you have a copy of the toolbox MATLAB will need to know where it is so that you can use the functions contained within it, to do this use MATLAB's addpath function to temporarily enable access or the savepath function to permanently enable access for all users. If you used our previous suggestion and saved the folder to your userpath this might look something like, savepath([userpath,filesep,'circadian']). If you did not save the folder to your userpath pass savepath the full path to the circadian folder, Ex. savepath('C:\Users\yourUserName\Documents\GitHub\circadian').
6. That is it. You are now ready to use the Circadian Analysis Toolbox.